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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…

Community Organizing

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,…

Visual Art

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

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

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…

Visual Art

Freight Train Riding

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 11, 2019) by Wes Modes
Bryn rides the now defunct Santa Cruz local.

I’ve hopped freight trains for transportation and adventure since 1992 all over the West Coast and Midwest, attending annual hobo gatherings in various places….

Adventure

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

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….

Community Organizing

Urban Adventuring

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 12, 2019) by Wes Modes
Even an ordinary urban landscape can provide opportunities to exercise your physical creativity. A stair rail becomes a slide. A brick facade becomes a climbing wall. A storm drain becomes a labyrinthian cavern.

A city skyline says different things to different people. To an urban adventurer, it is the siren on the rocks beckoning “Climb me.”…

Adventure

The Wheel of Programming Chance

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

An idea generator for programmers…

New Media

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

About the Artist

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 18, 2019) by Wes Modes
Modes interviews artist Butch Anthony sitting in Cypress Creek on a hot day in Florence, Alabama in 2016.

Wes Modes is a Santa Cruz artist focused on social practice, sculpture, performance and new media work. He holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the Digital Art and New…

About

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. …

New Media

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….

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

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….

Community Organizing

What Is Art?

Posted on November 9, 2019 (November 17, 2019) by Wes Modes

What Is Art? was a tiny, 50-person-capacity venue run by a collective of people from the Santa Cruz art and music scene. …

Performance

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