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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…

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….

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….

textalert

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

Technology

For more than thirty years, I have combined technology, art, and living. I discovered computers through a middle school friend in 1978 and recognized it instantly as a kind of modern-day alchemy that transformed mere thoughts into something visible, audible, and tangible. It was a magical realm of pure thought, bounded only by the ever-expanding limits of technology.

I am drawn to the place where old things (antiquated, obsolete, and forgotten) meet new things (miniaturized, surface mounted, and disposable). That intersection holds a special kind of magic in which anything can happen. It is a naturally humbling, comic, and mysterious place.

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…

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….

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