New Media

Black Rock Station

Posted on January 11, 2023 (October 3, 2024) 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….

DriftConditions

Posted on July 14, 2024 (July 20, 2024) by Wes Modes

An online audio stream of uncanny late-night radio generated on-the-fly by code….

WesBot

Posted on November 19, 2023 (July 20, 2024) by Wes Modes

A personality transfer experiment and teaching assistant with vague anxiety about being a digitized brain…

Unavoidable Disaster

Posted on October 9, 2020 (July 20, 2024) 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….

Playing Bear Creek

Posted on January 28, 2014 (July 20, 2024) 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….

Decision Maker

Posted on November 19, 2023 (July 23, 2024) by Wes Modes

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

Spotify Vinyl

Posted on November 19, 2023 (July 20, 2024) 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…

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. …

The Wheel of Programming Chance

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

An idea generator for programmers…

Inspiration Comes in the Night

Posted on November 18, 2019 (October 3, 2024) by Wes Modes

A weblog about art, technology, and the creative process…

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…

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….

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…

Land of Lost Socks

Posted on December 8, 2019 (November 20, 2023) 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?…

Blackmail

Posted on December 8, 2019 (November 20, 2023) 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….