A new Processing sketch. This one is a abstraction of the map of the list of failed banks from 2008-2010 (so far).

Source code can be found here, and the normal rules apply (Given without any warranty, may explode upon impact, blah blah blah)

The new canvas tag in HTML5 is really interesting me. Perhaps its because I have never liked or warmed up to
Flash all that much (too proprietary for my liking), but the possibilities for it are exciting. Especially with Processing.js, which ports the ease and functionality of Processing onto the web (no more applets!). There are some exciting things going on, such as this recent one that visualizes Twitter feeds.

At any rate, I have a quick experiment that I did with processing.js up here. The page requires a modern browser to view it (Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Chrome, perhaps a recent Opera. IE, dunno–you are on your own). And bear in mind here, this is all HTML and Javascript. No Flash involved.

If you are interested, my code is available here and you can get the Processing.js files here.

Things will be in flux for a bit while I fiddle.

And move to LA. Things will be in flux while I redesign the site and move to LA.

Ok, I am finally getting around to documenting some work.  This is the work that will be going into the show this week and _ Quarterly. It’s a continuation of my previous work with text cut up, this time using news feeds from major news sources as the source, capturing and recontextualizing the contemporary zeitgeist.

It was written with Processing, and there are four pieces printed on 50″x38″ Strathmore watercolor paper, and the full series can be seen here.

One of the completed projects (the word for which I should really document here) is a show in conjunction with the publication of the work in _ Quarterly. The opening/release party is this Saturday, June 6 at the Box Factory (865 Florida St, San Francisco)

And I promise to document the work soon as I get set up down south.

Here is a little project that I did recently. It is a Processing sketch that draws a map based on how often a country is mentioned in major media outlets (Such as the New York Times, Guardian UK, Al Jazeera, Reuters, AP). The brighter the country, the more mentions in the media.

A note about the applet, click the ‘approve’ button that will pop up (I have to sign the applet for security reasons) and give it a moment to do it’s thing, it’s doing a lot behind the scenes!

And if you missed out on the opening, or want more of the greatness, come to the closing party, on April 16th, 8pm – 11pm.

Thanks again!!!

So, next week is the opening of the big show that I have been working on for the past few months.  This was my baby, and I am curating/organizing/artist wrangling this one with a number of amazing people, most notably my co-conspirator on this Taylor Tschider.

For the show, we wanted to focus on the idea of the local. What does it mean to be from, and to live in, a particular place? What does it mean to interact with the world as an individual, an artist, and a citizen in this time of “the world is flat” globalization.  Over 30 artists have worked cross-media and created work that address these issues around the local.

April 2-16
Opening April 2nd, 8pm – 11pm
Closing April 16th, 8pm – 11pm

Sub Mission Art Space
2183 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA

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But things have been busy, and I haven’t had time to update this as much as I would like to.  At any rate, I have some work (specifically a sound piece) up at Kicker Studio here in SF.  It’s a great show headed up by my friend Jody Medich.

More info can be found here.

So, my show was last week.  Here is some documentation of the work.

The work that I did for the show are three different texts that were generated from a Processing sketch that I wrote. I was interested in William Burrough’s cut-up technique and using that as a starting point. So the sketch that I wrote does a web search on a term, returning the entire text from the top ten site related to that search term. Those texts are then broken into sentences, brought together, and reassembled at random into new texts. For this show, I chose to only assemble paragraphs. I choose related search terms for this — “free market,” “drunkenness,” and “decadence” — with each work representing a different term.

Hit me up if you are interested in the source code (its a bit loose to send out into the world at the moment).

Below are details of the work. Click on them for a close up.