190-Page Full-Color book focusing on artists working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Authored collaboratively with Régine Debatty, Pablo Garcia, Andrea Grover, and Thumb Projects, as part of a week-long “booksprint” at Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

The book includes meditations, interviews, diagrams, letters and manifestos on maker culture, hacking, artist research, distributed creativity, and technological and speculative design. Sixty international artists and art collaboratives are featured, including Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Atelier Van Lieshout, Brandon Ballengée, Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, The Institute for Figuring, Aaron Koblin, Machine Project, Openframeworks, C.E.B. Reas, Philip Ross, Tomás Saraceno, SymbioticA, Jer Thorp, and Marius Watz.

More about the book and its process at Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery website. New Art/Science Affinities can be bought printed on demand at Lulu.com. A full-text free PDF of the book is available here.

‎”I read this book. It’s pretty good even if they made it in a week. Worth the fifty bucks, easy.”

– Bruce Sterling

Digital Decay: Meditation/Disintegration

[1:50, Dimensions Variable]

Animation of individual video frames saved in progressively lower file formats hundreds and hundreds of times. Where is the line at which compression ceases to preserve information entirely? The digital image washes away on the tide of its own preservation. There’s peace in the letting go. The beach ball is the third eye.

Text piece designed to be read to the roar of the 405 Freeway preceding “Carmageddon,” a major closure of the interchange that took place between July 16th-18th, 2011. Part the group exhibition Expect Big Delay. PDF File Here.

Documentation of “Expect Big Delay” was installed in Marc Horowitz’s bathroom, July 24, 2011, for Cave Men Never Die! Participating artists included: Willem Henri Lucas, Casey Reas, Lisa Sitko, Zach Bucek, Robert Israel, Claire Evans, Gail Swanlund, Anna Reutinger, and Marc Horowitz.

Part of a series of curatorial and collaborative projects between Johanna Reed and Megan May Daalder.

The entire script of 2001: A Space Odyssey in binary code. 419 pages. The first in a series of impossible objects living in the liminal zone between human and computer.

“Shangri-La,” by YACHT.

Recorded in the “Western American Utopian Triangle” of Portland, Oregon, Marfa, Texas, and Los Angeles, California, in the winter of 2010.

Released June 21st 2011 on DFA Records.

Available on iTunes here.

“FLY ON, UFO,” an hour-long continuous mixtape of science-fiction inspired dance music.

Premiered on Boing Boing.

Free download!

Lecture on the cult underpinnings of underground music culture at the Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Part of House Systems LUNCH series.

Review here.

TWITTER FAVES

Book of Twitter Faves compiled by Travis Hallenbeck; contains a selection of TheUniverse tweets.

YACHT

Multimedia, music, text, performance, recording, video, design project conducted by myself and Jona Bechtolt.

“Precisely programmed digital ear candy.”

— Rolling Stone

DFA Records

YACHT on iTunes

Punk-rock fashion story photographed by Niall O’Brien for AnOther Magazine, S/S 2011.

Styled by Katie Shillingford & cast by Ryann Bosetti.