2009.04.22 A recent project: MAICgregator.

2009.04.13 Quick note to post my slides from my recent alt.chi talk entitled HCI for the Real World. You can see some of the disturbing photos I took at the conference as well. Working on a project that I hope to be able to unveil here in the next couple of weeks…keep posted.

2009.02.20 Anti-hundred-year birthday to the manifesto of the Italian Futurists. While indeed they did offer alternatives to staid European art movements, they did it in the name of militarism and a heavy dose of male chauvinism. Read instead the inverted Post Futurist Manifesto by Franco Berardi. In other news, there are a lot of photos from my recent trip to the Dominican Republic. A paper at CHI on which I was a co-author was nominated for a Best Paper Award (which we didn’t ultimately win, nonetheless). And my paper “HCI for the Real World ” was accepted for the alt.chi proceedings; I will present it in Boston on 9 April. (Note: this is not exactly the version I submitted, as the publisher required that I get rid of all colored links in the PDF and left justify my text; and this is the 21st century?)

2008.12.26 I now have some pictures uploaded to my site, courtesy of the photo gallery produced by the great people at F. A. T.. Photos available there include: Christmas with robots and puppets, Thanksgiving turkey and too much food, Trip to Singapore and Malaysia, and Disturbing things seen at Cornell. (For the reasons why I don’t use flickr anymore, see this page about Shi Tao at Amnesty USA.) I have moved all of my photos from flickr to this new location; you can follow any additions via the photos RSS feed.

2008.08.09 After a much-needed and enjoyed vacation in Malaysia (and some time in the police-state of Singapore), I’m attending the Values in Design workshop at Santa Clara University this week. More to come about ISEA and current projects in the near future. You can download my paper from the conference, Reinterpreting networks of people as fluid for political purposes.

2008.07.09 I’ll be attending the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Singapore at the end of the month, presenting on some of the theoretical aspects of Fluid Nexus. After the conference I’ll be traveling around the area, especially in Malaysia. If you’re going to be in that part of the world, be sure to drop me a line!

Updates to this website coming by the end of the summer…until then check out the zeitkunst blog.

2008.03.14 I just finished participating in a workshop at the Medialab-Prado in Madrid, Spain, developing the project Fluid Nexus, an application for mobile phones that allows activists and relief workers to communicate independent of a centralized mobile phone network.

2007.11.27 I’ve posted a bit about my master’s thesis project called “Encouraging the Expression of the Unspeakable: Influence and Agency in a Robotic Creature” on the zeitkunst blog. You can download the thesis and code for the project if you like!

2007.05.13 I’m finishing my master’s thesis at the MIT Media Lab this summer and heading to Ithaca for the PhD program in Information Sciences at Cornell this fall!