I interviewed Dianna Dilworth for Rhizome. "Reproduction, appropriation, and automation are three major ongoing concerns within contemporary music and art. It's strange then that relatively few people know about two mid-20th Century musical instruments that embodied all of these methods: the ...Read More
I just started writing for Rhizome. My first piece is a look at Philip Ross. It's easy to see Philip Ross as a recent embodiment of an age-old spirit of inquiry, where aesthetics, personal discovery, and scientific knowledge are linked, and ...Read More
I upgraded my wordpress installation. And to celebrate, I hope to start writing more. Oops: The transition seems to have added strange characters where I had quotation marks and apostrophes. It's possible that it may have been a "smart quotes" issue, ...Read More
I just got the new Japanese copy of Core Memory. They did a really good job -- it looks fantastic. Of course I can't comment on the translation exactly, but for all of his diligence and attention to detail, I'd ...Read More
Researcher Yuichiro Katsumoto, whom I met at Mobility 2006 in Bangkok, has created two new tools for looking and acting like a superhero, even if the only thing you're battling is the weather or a humdrum commute. The first, Amagatana, is ...Read More
Yup. Bring the real back to your life by making it hyperactive. Need a reason to use pencils? How about writing with incredibly long-lasting smells? Read More
June 21 is the French day of music, when everyone has a green light to sing the blues, or the reds, purples, and any other synaesthesiac label they want. Or not. Anyway, the point is there's music in the air. ...Read More
Paul McCartney's view of making an album in this part of the new century: "I was bored with the old record company's jaded view," McCartney says, plopped on a sofa in the large, comfortable farmhouse that doubles as a rehearsal studio ...Read More
We had a fun party at the Computer History Museum for the release of Core Memory! That's photographer Mark Richards (who really drove the project) distracting me with an inscrutable gesture as I diligently try to move books. Read More
Yahoo's new celebrity site, OMG! just launched (in beta). Giving all that celebrity material a sparkling new home. Notice how the interactions reflect the brand? Well, hopefully they do, anyway. I was part of the team that worked on this. ...Read More
