Your Neighbors’ Biz is a Facebook application my collaborators (Michael Shafae and Murtaza Virji) and I will be launching in the next two months. Mark Nunes’ edited collection, Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures includes a chapter I wrote about the project as a tactical manipulation of noise. The chapter is included [...]
ISEA was held in Belfast, Northern Ireland this year; and as expected it rained every day! I really do mean this exclamation mark to signify excitement because we hardly get rain in Cali…I presented Your Neighbors’ Biz, a Facebook application that is nearly ready to launch (we are hoping for a beta launch in early [...]
http://en.flossmanuals.net/DigitalFoundations For three days in February 2009 Adam Hyde and the members of the FLOSSmanuals.net collective convened at Eyebeam in NYC to translate xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg’s new CC-licensed textbook Digital Foundations from the Adobe Creative Suite to open-source software, including Inkscape, Gimp, Scribus, Kompozer, and Processing. It was a wild weekend and remains [...]
Well, Michael and I have been working on this for over a year and now it’s only a couple of weeks until we’ll be able to pull one from a bookstore shelf. Uhm, I mean, a locally-owned, independently operated bookstore, of course. So here it is, formally: Digital Foundations Intro to Media Design with the [...]