Black Rock Station Posted on January 11, 2023 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes A mysterious rural train station appearing in the Black Rock Desert has become unstuck in time, haunted by ghost trains heard but not seen….
A Secret History of American River People Posted on November 16, 2019 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes A project to build a collection of personal stories of people who live and work on the river from the deck of a recreated mid-century shantyboat over a series of epic river voyages…
Secret History Web Doc Posted on November 19, 2023 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes An interactive web documentary featuring video, images, sound, and stories gathered from my Secret History web expeditions…
WesBot Posted on November 19, 2023 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes A personality transfer experiment and teaching assistant with vague anxiety about being a digitized brain…
Playing Bear Creek Posted on January 28, 2014 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes Bear Creek is interactive fiction, a coming-of-age story from a child’s point-of-view. Looking back, it was that summer, or maybe just that one day that changed everything. Play online or with an IF player, includes period-accurate musical accompaniment….
Inspiration Comes in the Night Posted on November 18, 2019 (November 19, 2019) by Wes Modes A weblog about art, technology, and the creative process…
We’re Still Here Posted on November 19, 2023 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes Social practice and new media work involved interviews with dozens of local elders about the subject of social isolation…
Unavoidable Disaster Posted on October 9, 2020 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes Unavoidable Disaster is a monthly eclectic, punky webzine, a collaborative endeavor whose assembly is part art practice, part therapy, and part pure lark….
Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes An outdoor movie theater under the stars that springs up in the fields and industrial wastelands. Showing great movies, bringing a broad community together, and reclaiming public space….
FOMOphobia Posted on November 7, 2019 (November 20, 2023) by Wes Modes An Insistent Social Networking Anxiety Monitor FOMOphobia is a network-connected installation that immerses the viewer in a visualization of the artist’s real-time social networking anxiety, sounding alarms and keeping count…
Co-related Space Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 20, 2023) by Wes Modes Co-related Space is a digitally-enhanced environment that immerses participants not in digital space, but embodied space, highlighting the spatiality of participants, their behavior and their relationships with others within that space….
Decision Maker Posted on November 19, 2023 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes Reveal your secret plans! uncover your hidden agendas! It’s science and magic combined!…
Union of Benevolent Electrical Workers Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes Tech Community: UBEW provides mutual support to anti-authoritarian groups making radical social change through direct action, community involvement, and education….
Spotify Vinyl Posted on November 19, 2023 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes Missing those years of crackly vinyl records replaced by the streaming era, I created a web app that allowed you to listen to entire albums (and only entire albums) complete with crackly vinyl, scratches, and needle drops and lifts…
Grouper Posted on November 19, 2023 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes Student Project Group Creator: I observed early in my teaching career that students were both stressed by and relatively bad at choosing groups for course projects. I created a tool to generate approximate optimum groupings based on student self-reported characteristics…
textalert Posted on November 19, 2023 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes An Activist Text Notification System: Responding to the need that activists have to rapidly inform group members about actions and updates during protests, members of UBEW created textalert…
Megalophone Posted on November 19, 2023 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes With lead artist Lauren Benz, I helped create a light-enabled Mbira Installation that responded to the sound of user-created music…
Mimic Chatterbot Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 20, 2023) by Wes Modes Mimic is a chatterbot that learns from you. He has no built-in knowledge of the language. Mimic learns to speak solely by talking to others, and remembering a limited amount of context around each transaction. …
Night Ride Radio Show Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes I produced a radio show on Santa Cruz public radio station KUSP and pirate Free Radio Santa Cruz for six years between 2001 to 2007, over 120 volumes amounting to…
The Wheel of Programming Chance Posted on December 1, 2019 (December 8, 2019) by Wes Modes An idea generator for programmers…
