Past Projects
Cable Project • Civilized Chronology • Colours • Curation.ca • Goodreads.ca • Journal • Lecture List • Message in a Bottle • On Kawara Code • Overview of History • Press Release Photos that Rhyme • Random Access Memory • Timereading
Email Projects
The Lecture List was a short-lived (2004-2005) email list where I sent out notices to up coming lectures, panel discussion, and book-reading-speakers in the Toronto area. It’s motto was ‘for the betterment of the world, we think’.
Received press release photos that seem thematically related. This was published via an one-off email on my email list.
The photos link to the original press-releases from the Akimbo email list, archived on my blog.
Time-reading is about reading moments in time as something other than what they appear. Playing with the idea of a ready-made, time-reading events pretend to be the titles I give them.
This project functioned through my email list, with each title being sent as an email to my subscribers. The series was exhibited in the autumn of 2008 at the University of Toronto Sustainability Office’s NVRNMNT show.
Web Projects
Goodreads was not an art project when `art` is defined as being something useless.
Goodreads was an art project when it took up creative energy. Sometimes I’d said I was a curator of ideas, the gallery is the web, the opening was at your inbox. Othertimes, I was a freelance editor working ten-years ahead of the pack, a personal aggregator of content.
Goodreads was a soapbox by which I tried to inject unheard, anonymous conversation with more intelligence than is offered from the news media, which could only appear intelligent when the overall picture emerges from a link collection. With Goodreads I also tried to provide a resource for curious searchers to find what they might be looking for by republishing content or posting things on the web for the first time.
Other Projects
The Standardized World Chronology (2005 / 5345)
Jesus was cool and all in that ancient hippy sort of way, but why is everyone in the world measuring the years since his birth? We need a new chronology that incorporates all of recorded history, that is based on a solar year, and ideally has a definitive start date. I came up with one solution. (This was before I learned of Cesare Emiliani’s Holocene Calender.)
Standardized/Civilized World Chronology
Personal Projects
I’ve been blogging analog since 1990.
As a class project when I was 11 we wrote letters, stuck them in empty wine bottles, and then a lobster fisherman dumped them overboard on one of his runs. My bottle ended up floating across the Atlantic Ocean and landed on a beach in Spain.