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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…

FOMOphobia

Posted on November 7, 2019 (November 20, 2023) by Wes Modes
FOMOphobia installation at the Digital Art Research Center at UC Santa Cruz Spring 2013 Open Studios

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….

Personal Stories Series

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes

The Personal Stories Series consists primarily of glass-fronted assemblage pieces made from found materials, both man-made and natural.  This series reflects my interest in narrative and personal story. Half way between abstract…

Strange Machina Series

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 19, 2023) by Wes Modes

The Strange Machina Series consists of functional sculptures that appear to have some mysterious industrial purpose, but are intended only to intrigue and amuse.  This series brings to mind old patent drawings…

Visual Art

I’d rather my art listened, rather than take the floor. I want it to reach out and invite you to play some role, a button pusher, a prayer whisperer, a diviner of mysteries.

Insurgent Photographers

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

Collective Project: A regular gathering of radical photographers in 2008 and 2009 to come together to share, discuss, and critique photographs…

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…

Comics and Illustrations

Posted on November 9, 2019 (October 10, 2020) by Wes Modes

I discovered the comic book writing of Alan Moore when he was penning for Swamp Thing in the late 80s.  I had no idea that comics could be an intelligent,…

Ragdolls and Monsters

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 18, 2019) by Wes Modes

I’ve always had a fascination with homemade ragdolls and creatures.  It started with building monsters by hand out of the scraps from my sewing room. At one point, I invited friends…

Comic Artists’ Collective

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

Collective Project: A regular informal gathering of comic artists, in which artists illustrated their own personal stories, radical history, imagined futures, or experimental expressions….

DIY River Rafting Exhibition

Posted on November 9, 2019 (October 10, 2020) by Wes Modes

I brought my DIY raft building skills to a gallery setting, demonstrating the art and technology of DIY raft building, sharing photos, and talking about my experience since 2005….

Santa Cruz Art List

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 22, 2019) by Wes Modes
Santa Cruz Art List connecting non-institutional artist making non-commodifiable art in Santa Cruz County.

Collective Project: A forum for announcing non-institutional art events, meetings and projects, ideas and news. A website and email list, to keep in touch, to announce art events, and to document our work….

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