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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….

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…

Union of Benevolent Electrical Workers

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 16, 2019) by Wes Modes

Tech Community: UBEW provides mutual support to anti-authoritarian groups making radical social change through direct action, community involvement, and education….

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.

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. …

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