Projects

• Angel

  An ambient sensing tool to help people when they report crisis or personal needs.

  We live in dense urban landscapes that have crisis at many different scales. A crisis may be a large event such as a tsunami, an earthquake, a terrorist attack or other large scale disaster. A crisis may be something smaller such as a house fire, or a pileup on the freeway, a gas leak or a road out. A crisis may be something relatively minor, a crisis only to one person, such as being locked out of ones car, or trying to find a lost pet, or needing help sharing babysitting duties....

• AppWiki

  A wiki that lets users author code not just layout - see http://appwiki.com . One of the frustrations with Ruby on Rails is that it enshrines a priesthood of the developer. Developers develop "for" users. Projects like HacketyHack do attempt to democratize programming but not on the web; which is now the defacto environment. Why doesn't somebody make a self-programming environment on the web that is social and that allows everybody's software projects to play together? Letting anybody script and letting anybody customize the look and feel of their own areas - and or recycle and reuse and scavenge anybody else's work? It seems the obvious direction; especially with the huge amount of noise and excitement over the concept of the 'wiki'. If grooming our digital gardens is what we do best - then why not push away from solutions like Ruby On Rails and actually empower users to fully participate at all levels of composition; from html, to css to javascript to actual core logic? SecondLife moves in this direction and even MySpace allows some degree of customization - yet the mantra we still see from popular frameworks is locked in a kind of medieval monastery paradigm of the knowledge keepers protecting the knowledge from the populace. AppWiki hopes to invert that model and turn the web into a programmable wiki....

• ArtMeetGeek

  Art girls should date geek boys! The idea is that you do little projects - draw something, do challenges, write stories; show off your mad skillz. Cupids matchmake you to others that you should hang out with; and you report back on how it goes. The best cupids can rise to the top and be sought out as match-makers....

• Everyone Needs Memory Palaces

  Cursory Outline: As we move more and more of our devices, memories, images, toys and histories online what becomes of this content? Where is it stored? On servers with companies like Flickr? On private servers far away? How do these external storage devices not end up being the same as basements filled with boxes? What about cataloging long term? Finding things? Retrieving them? Safety and security long term? Second life offers people a way to create spaces and houses that are more long term than their physical counterparts (well theoretically) particularly if you are someone who has "lost" things in the real world you will be concerned about losing things and loss in general so digital storage can be a kind of security blanket, a private hidey-hole for all of your things. Or if you are a packrat you can collect infinitely not constrained by physical limitations. But how do we then get through all of this stuff? Memory Palaces. Use the simulating capabilities to store "things" (data/histories/devices/ANYTHING) in your digital home. The architecting of this would be similar to the Little Cities Project that I did with RED76 insofar as you can construct your dream home and then place it anywhere you want....

• ImageWiki

  Visual search for cell phones. A means for finding information about things in the real world by taking a picture of them with your camera phone. Using physical hyperlinks to connect to the digital shadows for things, images, video and text. See http://imagewiki.org as shown at http://wherecamp.org in 2008....

• MakerLab

  Where we talk about our ideas about our ideas.

• OnGallery

  ON Gallery is an art gallery in the Everett Station Lofts. Ben Foote and a small team of compadres is curating and exhibiting interactive art in all shapes and sizes. The gallery opens new shows on First Thursdays. Makerlab holds meetings here sometimes.

• OpenSim

  We live in a world where our decisions have environmental, social and political repercussions. How can we better make decisions that take into account more factors? Each of the stake-holders should help build a collective shared digital model of our local watersheds and eco-systems, bringing their concerns to the table, and we should computationally simulate the possible outcome of decisions....

• QRCodeLove

  QRCodeLove creates qr-codes from a url. Why is this useful? It is useful in the same way that a bar-code on a product package is useful. A machine can understand it and can return more information about that subject matter. See also the ImageWiki project....

• SpinnyGlobe

  Papervision3d is making it pretty easy for people to roll their own spinny globes. But somehow the flash community seems more interested in trying to monetize their little projects instead of contributing to something bigger. What we're really trying to do here is encourage people to contribute to a foundation and take their rewards from the larger market that would ensue. The real question is how to build community and outreach so that there is a contributor resource pool? Our approach is to provide a simple 3d visualization platform for a 3d globe that others can build on. ...

• WhereIs

  WhereIs is a social project where we modify iphones to track individuals locations every 10 minutes. This creates a visual record of their navigation through space and makes it possible for their friends to know where they are at all time. This work was presented in the Immaterialized Exhibit at Disjecta and serves as a code component for other social place sharing projects as well as a study on the implications of loss of privacy...

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