New Media

Black Rock Station

Posted on January 11, 2023 (January 11, 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….

Playing Bear Creek

Posted on January 28, 2014 (December 8, 2022) 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….

Co-related Space

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 18, 2019) 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….

Unavoidable Disaster

Posted on October 9, 2020 (March 12, 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….

FOMOphobia

Posted on November 7, 2019 (October 10, 2020) 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…

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…

The Amazing Decision Maker

Posted on November 27, 2019 (December 8, 2019) by Wes Modes

Reveal your secret plans! uncover your hidden agendas! It’s science and magic combined!…

The Wheel of Programming Chance

Posted on December 1, 2019 (December 8, 2019) by Wes Modes

An idea generator for programmers…

Mario Clouds

Posted on November 27, 2019 (November 28, 2019) by Wes Modes

A pure CSS homage to Corey Archangel’s 2002 ROM hack piece Super Mario Clouds…

Mimic Chatterbot

Posted on November 9, 2019 (October 10, 2020) 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. …

Chicken Robot

Posted on November 24, 2020 (December 6, 2020) by Wes Modes

The Redwood House Chicken Robot controls the doors, lights, and cameras in our chicken coop, interacting via text message….

Dumpster Diver

Posted on December 8, 2019 (December 8, 2019) by Wes Modes

You’re going diving! Dumpster diving! It’s like give-away day at the Thrift Center. It’s like Sunday evening curb-side after the yard sales give it up. It’s like, well… it’s just like rummaging around in the trash behind the junk store. …

Blackmail

Posted on December 8, 2019 (December 8, 2019) by Wes Modes

You lookin for something? A special something? Maybe you lookin to send somebody a message? Just tell me, what you need done. But, if anyone asks, I don’t know you….

Land of Lost Socks

Posted on December 8, 2019 (December 8, 2019) by Wes Modes

Where do all those lost socks go? Sock-eating driers? Alien abduction? Runaway socks hitting the road and living on the streets?…

Message in a Bottle

Posted on December 8, 2019 (December 8, 2019) by Wes Modes

Toss a message in a bottle into the surf of the Internet sea. Eventually, it may wash up in the form of E-mail on someone’s personal beach….