I recently got a small commission to create a couple of self-portraits for a visual art show in Vancouver on self-portraiture. The curator saw an earlier dbCinema piece I did called The Club that incinemates the faces of my favorite North American politicians, business men, and psychopaths. He asked me to do related work with [...]

Here is a short video I put together about Aleph Null, an interactive, generative, online work I wrote in HTML 5 and JavaScript using the new <canvas> tag. The video was first shown at the Morgantown ELO confererence. It was my contribution to a panel involving Leo Flores, Giovanna Di Rossario, and Mark Marino, who [...]

The Club is a moving-image digital collaging of 57 images of selected North American politicians, business men, and psychopaths from the eighties till the present. There’s also a linked slideshow of some stills from the video. The politicians are conservatives who have blasted away both at home and abroad. Via deregulation, the shock doctrine, and [...]

Here is the author’s description: “The Longest Poem in the World is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day. You can see more verses by clicking the three dots at the bottom (• • •) Made by Andrei Gheorghe.” It’s interesting [...]

‘m sure ‘spiritual materialism’ could mean any number of um things. that’s part of its poetical if not philosophical appeal, as poetry is the art of being profoundly vague. so one doesn’t like to ‘disambiguate’ too strongly. however, here’s a bit more about what i had in mind. others will have their own, different notions [...]

Dominic McIver Lopes has a book coming out in August called A Philosophy of Computer Art; info at http://www.apoca.mentalpaint.net. He teaches Philosophy in Vancouver. Nice to have a different sort of approach to these matters. A philosopher. And he talks about my piece Seattle Drift. In which the basic philosophy is ‘do me’. Which, come [...]