This year I am a recipient of a TERMINAL net art commission that I used to create a series of poem interpretations for the browser. Three classic works of literature from the 20th Century (“O Captain, My Captain”, “On the Road”, and “Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot”) are remade for the browser [...]
Chiara Ciociola wrote a nice review of the Mechanical Games for Neural today. I especially like this idea, “Choosing the Mechanical Turk service (also featured Burrough’s previous work “Mechanical Olympics”) is not new in net art. But here its mechanisms are not exaggerated to emphasize the rotten side, as in Sheep Market by Aaron Koblin. [...]
Sylvia Masuda, a former student of mine (Comm 358 and Comm 317) at Cal State Fullerton won third place in the AEJMC Logo Competition. The logo was made for the annual conference taking place in Denver, 2010. I assigned the competition as a final exam in Sylvia’s class and encouraged her to make a few [...]
I always knew I was weird…MechanicalOlympics.org has been selected as an Official Honoree in the Weird category of the 13th Annual Webby Awards. The Webby Awards is the Internet’s most respected symbol of success. The 13th Annual Webby Awards received over 9,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. Webby Awards are [...]