Interesting review of Steve Goodman’s book on sonic weapons by Geeta Dayal. The book is a very thorough look at history and implications of sonic weapons. Read the review here.
Steve Goodman, Toby Hayes, and I will be working on some projects around this subject over the next year. I’m hoping to spend sometime reverse engineering a LRAD speaker system used in crowd control.
This joyful satire of opportunism and greed provides one of the few critiques presented at FutureSonic that account for the role of complex economic and ideological interests, in debate and action, surrounding climate change. The values (or at least the spirit) of America’s self-made-man, mining for black gold, sits uncomfortably comfortably alongside those of the hardware hackers and media activist dudes. “Being green has never been this cool”.
“How can web technologists interested in the interface between digital footprint and environmental footprint, and artists concerned with collaborative observation, mapping and intervention in the environment, bring a fresh approach to ‘citizen science’ and public engagement in the environment? Cheryl Northey found out at the recent Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas.” dw-world.de
audio interview
A nice article about the urban prospector on boing boing.
"Last week our pals at Gizmodo stumbled on an Instructables project for hacking a metal detector with a hydrocarbon sensor. The goal: use it to find oil you can extract and sell for $$$ OR locate underground toxins, so you can try to sue whoever put them there (win win, if you ask me)."
A group of us are going to give a series of presentations and workshops in Illinois from March 30th – April 4th. Come check it out if yr in chicago.
Check out the schedule events and participants here: http://roadshow.eyebeam.org/schedule.html
In mid May, I’ll be installing and giving workshops on my Oil Prospecting kit at Futuresonic in Manchester, UK. It will be an interactive installation with live over-hyped twitter feeds of people striking it rich using the oil finder, and google map mash-up of potential money spots. More info on the project here.
Here’s a video of a presentation I did in january of some of my work at colorado college. I don’t always talk directly in the mic, so i apologize about the poor audio at times;..)
Jon Cohrs – presenting work – colorado college 1-28-09 from anfw on Vimeo.
I’m teaching two classes at colorado college this winter. The first one is an intro to new media class. Yes, very vague, but it will be a fun crash course on the history of new media art of the last 15 years, along with studio practice of the technique used such as ascii, a little programing, page scraping ect..
Check out their work at : newmediaz.splnlss.com
Then I’ll be co-teaching a class with Dan Raffin, called Interactive Video Art. I’m excited to co-teach with the most influential professor I had in undergrad.
Moss Bombs, a project and Instructable I created in 2007 was included in the Experimenta Design 2008 Show in Amsterdam.
visual and sound works by jon cohrs
