The full text of my PhD thesis is TOP SECRET until the entire thing is complete and the viva voce has been passed. But there is progress nonetheless! Here is some “proof” that work is moving forward. IOGraph “…is an application that turns mouse movements into a modern art.” All mouse movements are captured as trails and all [...]

For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul (USA) to showcase their work to the public. I was invited to Spark 2009 to show my installation Sound Garden and give a [...]

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7PM @ 101E. 6th Street Bloomington, Indiana 7PM – 1AM / All ages welcome $5 / Beer and wine cash bar A globally cool, local evening of art, design and creative industries celebrating sustainable practices. FOUND is an extravaganza of sights, sounds and interactions with artists, designers, creatives, musicians, DJs, VJs [...]

The Syncretic Sense 4 April – 24 May 2009 Plymouth Arts Centre The first UK retrospective exhibition of the pioneering cybernetic artist Roy Ascott, curated in collaboration with i-DAT (Institute for Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth). Long before email and the internet, Roy Ascott started using online computer networks as an art medium [...]

Look Mom! WordPress! This represents the first major design overhaul of x-tet.com since 2003. Sure, I still like Japanese action figures, but a revised look and structure for this site was long overdue… Thank you Upstart Blogger for the very cool Minim theme—it’s just what I wanted. Converting an existing web site to a blog [...]

Asynchronous improvisation by me, you + others. Following Perturb, Sound Garden is the second work in a series of musical installations that explore the relationship of people, location, and audio relative to technology. Sound Garden was composed for Arts Week 2007 at Indiana University, Bloomington. The project originally ran from 21 February to 7 March, [...]

A musical exploration of space, with reference to Henri Bergson, Guy Debord, Kevin Lynch, and Henri Lefebvre. These studies require the arrow keys of a standard computer keyboard and the Flash player. Launch first study: Dérive Launch second study: Mazes This research has taken me to some unexpected and very interesting places. “Psychogeography” in the [...]

An asynchronous improvisation by me, you + others at the SoFA gallery in Bloomington, IN. Sound material is to be provided by those who vist the piece. Join in the performance with your own short recordings, samples, soundscapes, and found sonic objects. Launch Perturb project site

A(rt)Life 2.0 is an installation of music, sound, and projected animation. It uses a flocking behavior to reveal the possibilities of sound in Artificial Life systems. A(rt)Life 2.0 examines the relationship of music and emergence by exploring how self-organizing behavior can extend music endlessly in time. Launch A(rt)Life 2.0 project site

A(rt)Life is a new project, initiated Summer 2005. This study uses the PSO algorithm and explores the connection between swarm dynamics and specific parameters of a music composition. Unlike my other PSO-related works this example is only available as an MP3. Play max.s.o.mp3