Michael is presenting Tentacles in Mumbai: https://m.facebook.com/CanadainIndia?id=161821560512888&_rdr#!/photo.php?fbid=596147583746948&id=161821560512888&set=a.596147533746953.1073741826.161821560512888&__user=537797096

This interactive waiting room has a pressure sensitive floor and an interactive video environment for kids to play with as they’re waiting for clinic appointments. Elaine Biddiss spearheaded the project and invite my class of senior design students to create the ambient play experiences. It just launched to the public this week. http://www.ocadu.ca/about_ocad/articles/stories/20120525_screenplay.htm

Just attend Grand 2012 with my grad student research team. Barry Wellman made an interesting observation about the GRAND network: that the NSERC (science) and SSHRC (social science/humanities) people were like two solitudes, and the art / tech practitioners were the bridge between them.

I just did a workshop in mobile interactive art with the artists in residence at New Adventures in Sound Art. You can meet them at the Trans-X Symposium in May. I’ll be there presenting a paper called Telegraph with Alan Boulton and talking on a panel.

I’m presenting at ISEA next week in Istanbul. The intersection of Asia and Europe, Muslim and Christian, old and new. I can’t wait to drink the coffee and hear the music. Tons of interesting stuff at ISEA, too. Plus the Biennial is on.

If you can’t get to the MoMA exhibit you might like the catalogue…

I’m just about to begin shooting a new micro-budget feature film performed by Sonja Posod and myself. We’re shooting in the Durham training facility operated by the New Tribes Mission. (Google it.) And of course the inimitable Michael Tweed in behind the camera.

We’re off to the opening of Tentacles at the Museum of Modern Art tomorrow! And so just put a whole new version of the website online:  www.tentacles.ca

I’m just back from a visit to Halifax next week for a workshop at CFAT on cell phone controlled installations. I have lots of fond memories of Halifax, having shown at CFAT more than 20 years ago!

I’ll be making two presentations at this year’s conference in Vancouver later this week: The Art of Waiting – Interactive Displays in Healthcare Settings (with E. Biddiss, P. McKeever) and Identity Play in an Artistic, Interactive Urban Projection (with Michael Longford). I’m really interested to hear what the other presenters have to say about the [...]