Practice, my MFA the­sis project, will be set up for you to explore this Friday in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Practice is both a work of inter­ac­tive video art and a design research project.

Unlike most other works of this medium, it does not reward bod­ily motion and exag­ger­ated ges­tures, but encour­ages patience and self-reflection. In so doing, it explores the ten­sion between emo­tional engage­ment and the uncom­fort­able ambi­gu­ity of not know­ing what will hap­pen next.

Friday, February 12

About 9:00 – 11:00pm

16th St. and Guerrero St., NE cor­ner (Map)

In the event of rain, the piece will be installed the next night, Saturday, 2/13.

I’m very excited to announce that I will be co-teaching a two-day intro­duc­tion to Processing at the new Gray Area Foundation for the Arts here in San Francisco! The work­shop is the first in a series on cre­ative cod­ing, and coin­cides with Gray Area’s grand open­ing cel­e­bra­tions and ini­tial exhi­bi­tion, fea­tur­ing work by C.E.B. Reas, Camille Utterback, and Stamen Design.

The Gray Area folks have cre­ated an amaz­ing space down­town, and this work­shop is an excit­ing chance to learn a ton of great new skills, and even meet one of Processing’s co-initiators. (C.E.B. will be mak­ing an appearance.)

The work­shop is sched­uled for Saturday, October 3rd & Sunday, October 4th, 1:00 – 6:00pm both days.

See GAFFTA’s site for the com­plete sched­ule, details, and reg­is­tra­tion.

Just launched the new site, er, page for Revamp Salon, and I think it looks pretty cool. Stay tuned for a full web­site in a few months, and if you’re in San Francisco, call 431-VAMP to get a great new ‘do!

Questions & Answers is my lat­est project: an exper­i­ment in new, non-linear nar­ra­tive forms, or what I’m call­ing data-as-narrative. But really it’s just a fun way to explore some of the crazy, inter­est­ing stuff peo­ple write online.

I gen­er­ated this image from the genetic code of a California case of H1N1 (posted today by the CDC). I fed the data into my color tools project, and assigned one color for each base found in DNA: ade­nine (A), cyto­sine (C), gua­nine (G) and thymine (T). The col­ors were cho­sen by search­ing ColourLovers for each of those base names and using the top result, i.e. the “best” col­ors for A, C, G, and T, accord­ing to ColourLovers.