Wii Hacks
Hexagram, Montreal.
October 2009
I would like to propose the creation of a world. This world is inhabited by two kinds of organisms, motes and chucks. These organisms are similar in many respects, but different in fundamental ways. Motes can see their world. They explore, learn and understand their habitat principally through sight [....] Chucks on the other hand lack vision. [....] They scour across surfaces and develop a world view through the experience of tumbling, falling, tipping.
sessile
ArtSpace, Peterborough. October 2008
Initiated 2008, ongoing.
sessile is a colony of 50 kinetic but non-motile devices that respond to changes in ambient light levels by opening and closing their limbs. Although individuals share a common form each reacts to environmental change in subtly different and often surprising ways.
stone's throw
skipping data with off-the-grid networks
Intitated in 2007, ongoing.
Stone’s throw begins with the image of overlapping rings that arise from the childhood act of skipping of stones on the surface of a pond. Skipping stones transforms water into a medium, memory and fabric that supports, reflects and displays the consequence of play.
whimsy
a testbed for social Braitenburg Vehicles
2006-2007, ongoing as an occasional test platform
whimsy is a swarm of eight physically identical 2-wheeled robots that I developed to explore simple behavioural rule systems (Braitenburg vehicles) in an embodied context. whimsy vehicles are usually deployed in two forms, identifiable by wheel color, that are programed with simple sensor-actuator routing rules and realtime feedback systems. Distinct relationships between vehicle-types and with their environment are immediately identifiable. Research Assistant: Tylor Robb
anaBlog
Blink. Peterborough Arts Week, 2006.
Part confessional, part message board, part soapbox, anaBlog is a DIY network that stands at the intersections of private and public space, personal and community standards, revelation and surveillance, graffiti and communication, vandalism and intervention. The automated clothesline of anaBlog provides pedestrians in Peterborough's downtown core the opportunity to air their dirty laundry.
the distance between degrees
Digifest: Mods. 2006.
the distance between degrees juxtaposes the relentless scratching of an etch-a-sketch stylus with the apparent fluidity of digital drawing software in an effort to interrogate the boundary between physical and virtual space. My expectation was that the scribed lines on the etch-a-sketch screen would act as a window to the various ways that our passage into and out of virtual space is controlled by assumptions embedded in interface design.