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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…

Freakshow

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

An Independent Publication: Freakshow, being a Diverse Collection of the Curious & Peculiar, was an independent publication of DIY adverts….

Community Organizing

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. …

New Media

Secret Exchange

Posted on March 2, 2014 (November 18, 2019) by Wes Modes

Secret Exchange invites people to share their secrets with strangers. A table and two chairs on a downtown street corner, and a sign inviting people to sit down share a secret….

Performance

Adventure Club

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 11, 2019) by Wes Modes
Artist Eric Drooker provided some of the evocative inspiration for Adventure Club

Adventure Club is post-apocalyptic revolutionary logistics training. Think of Adventure Club as radical skill-share, ranges from rather tame to semi-hardcore direct action. …

Adventure

The Palace of Light and Shadow

Posted on January 19, 2024 (January 20, 2024) by Wes Modes

The Palace of Light and Shadow, an immersive tapestry of art and architecture, is centered around a light and airy courtyard, the beating heart of the design with the Man suspended high above, framed by elegant pillars and arches….

The Wheel of Programming Chance

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

An idea generator for programmers…

New Media

Shantyboat Dotty

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 20, 2023) by Wes Modes

I began building a homemade shantyboat — that is, a rustic houseboat — from scratch, recording every step in the build process….

Adventure

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…

New Media

Last Night DIY Parade

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

Last Night is a decentralized, collective, open, public New Year’s Eve celebration in Santa Cruz, California. Last Night is a completely organic event, organized and put on at a grassroots-level. No city-sponsorship. No corporate donors….

Community Organizing

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…

New Media

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…

Visual Art

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….

New Media

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…

Sculpture

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

What the Hell’s Going on Downtown Day

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 24, 2023) by Wes Modes

Blabbermouth the Mime, the street corner soapbox preacher, tiny tiny orchestra, and a half dozen other performers committed to bewildering downtown shoppers…

Social Practice

An Evening of Extraordinary Proportions

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 22, 2019) by Wes Modes

A spectacular & historic evening of unusual proportions. A costume benefit featuring an elegant three-course dinner, a silent auction, stimulating music, and an Exhibition Prizefighting Match between Nikola Tesla and Tom Edison.
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Performance

Streetside Letter Writing

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 22, 2019) by Wes Modes

I did a streetside letter writing service with friends. The idea was simplicity itself: A letter writing service springs up on Pacific Ave, offering free typing/dictation of love letters, apologies, and blackmail….

Social Practice

Santa Cruz Community Safety Workgroup

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 22, 2019) by Wes Modes

A Community Workgroup: “Without police, wouldn’t there be chaos?” and “What about the bad people?” We get asked these legitimate questions all the time. It’s time we began to wrestle with some possible answers….

Community Organizing

Blue Light Safety Project

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 22, 2019) by Wes Modes
Blue light house. Photo by Kevin A Slotemaker

A Community Project: The Blue Light Safety Project is a Santa Cruz local community effort to provide temporary safe spaces for people who are feeling unsafe….

Community Organizing

Police Obsolescence Workgroup

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 22, 2019) by Wes Modes
Laugh Out Loud Cats by Adam Koford

An ongoing workgroup working toward a world without police. Some of the efforts of this workgroup include CopWatch, know your rights, police accountability, alternatives to calling the police, and education about police, courts, and jails….

Community Organizing

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