So Minitek happened. Well, it sort of happened, and it sort of didn’t. I was scheduled to exhibit for two full nights, but half way through the first night the NYPD decided we were having too much fun and shut us down. Lots of drama that I shant bore you with. Unless you’re into that sorta thing …
Anyhow, I generated some cool work for the event, and I just made an applet for the web. Check it out!
Oh, and one side note. I was planning on taking photos and video of the event on the second evening, but in light of the fact that the second evening didn’t happen, I didn’t get any. If you’ve got some and would like to share them w/ me, please email em my way. Thanks!
*****Update*****
Minitek is now selling single night tickets:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event-detail.aspx?id=54105
The tickets to the night events (these are the tickets you want if you want to see Wiremap) are only $35 plus a $4.40 booking fee.
Come say hi!
The Wiremap is going to be making an appearance at the Minitek Electronic Music Festival! The festival dubs itself as “New York’s Electronic Music and Innovation Festival,” and I’m very happy to be a part of it. Not only do I get to share the Wiremap, I also get to dance my ass off.
The next couple of weeks I’m going to be working on new programs to run and load up for this festival. If anybody wants to see their wiremap work published, send me a note and I’ll give you a run down of how the tech works, and how you can interface with it.
At The Last HOPE, I met a fellow by the name of Max Parke. He saw my project Friday and was excited to get involved. After thinking about it for a night, he came by my booth on Saturday and messed around for a coupla hours and came up with the following program:
Over the last four days I’ve probably spent over 50 hours in a conference hall at the Hotel Pennsylvania. If there’s one thing I’ve learned form the experience, it’s this: Hackers are cool.
Like, seriously cool people.
So for all of you who took my business card and are reading this right now – thanks for all your support and excitement and insightful ideas. Your input is definitely going to change the future of the Wiremap.
I’ve got one last favor to ask. If any of you post photos or videos or articles or interviews or whatever, I’d love it if you could drop me an email to let me know. It’s third person material like this that helps bring the Wiremap to other events. I plan on compiling all the links on a big list at http://wiremap.phedhex.com,
One of the highlights that many of you didn’t get a chance to see was when a coder named Max (don’t know his handle or last name) decided to build a new program for the Wiremap. He thought about it for a night, came back, and within two hours whipped up a beautiful and captivating ripple effect. I took some video and will be posting it in the next coupla days.
I’m in the process of setting up a mailing list, also. I promise I’ll have a link for that on my blog within a week.
See you at The Next HOPE.
So this is a nice follow-up to the last post.
Before I figured out that I don’t really like the installation art world, I got an email from an administrator at HOPE ’08, aka “The last HOPE.” HOPE is a hacker convention held annually in NYC (Hackers On Planet Earth). My brother blogged about the ’04 HOPE convention over at his site. I’m excited. This is the first time the big Wiremap will get a public viewing. If this conference is your cup of tea, registration is 75 bucks.
I got word that they were looking for submissions through Christina Olson. She sent out word through the Dorkbot mailing list, and I thought that the large version of the Wiremap would be perfect for this venue. One full day of setup time, and three days of exhibition. I will also hopefully have the opportunity to leave my station for a few minutes to check out all the other cool happenings at HOPE, including a Segway racing track.
So yeah, if you come out swing by my tent enclosure or whatever they’ve got me set up in and say hi.
