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Black Rock Station

Posted on January 11, 2023 (October 3, 2024) by Wes Modes

A mysterious rural train station appearing in the Black Rock Desert has become unstuck in time, haunted by ghost trains heard but not seen….

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….

Unavoidable Disaster

Posted on October 9, 2020 (July 20, 2024) 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….

Decision Maker

Posted on November 19, 2023 (July 23, 2024) by Wes Modes

Reveal your secret plans! uncover your hidden agendas! It’s science and magic combined!…

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. …

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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…

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….

Dumpster Diver

Posted on December 8, 2019 (November 20, 2023) by Wes Modes

You’re going diving! Dumpster diving! It’s like give-away day at the Thrift Center. It’s like Sunday evening curb-side after the yard sales give it up. It’s like, well… it’s just like rummaging around in the trash behind the junk store. …

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