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Urbana 2011

Intro
Urbana is an annual fundraiser hosted by Dharma Developments where proceeds raised support community programs with the goal of preventing homelessness in Ottawa. This year, URBANA is helping Action Housing / Action-Logement, an Ottawa-based charitable organization that assists low-income individuals and families to find and maintain safe, affordable and [...]

“Phenomena” @ CUBE Gallery, Feb. 1-27 2011

Phenomena is a group exhibition @ CUBE Gallery featuring seven artists’ take on climatic, astronomical, or geological phenomena.

Alongside work by Aili Kurtis, Paul Schibli, Guy Lavigueur, Jennifer Gibbs, Reid MacLachlan, John Roth, and Tony Broderick, I’m debuting work exploring new themes for me: a light piece controlled by the colour of the sky.

The light patterns [...]

Making in NYC

I’m happy to announce that I’m spending an art-focused summer in NYC!  Between now and the end of August, I’ll be based out of midtown Manhattan.

It already feels like I have more projects than the time to complete them   I’ve secured an “artist in residency” position with NYC Resistor, where I have open [...]

One Button Objects

Back in February, I saw this call for single button, interactive objects to be displayed at an exhibition called “one button objects,” in San Francisco, as part of the Gamma4 one button game event during the 2010 Game Developers Conference.
This presented a perfect opportunity to experiment with interactivity and sensor input for my Electric Window [...]

Chinatown Remixed 2010

Intro
Chinatown Remixed runs from May 8 to June 8, 2010, in Ottawa’s Chinatown district. This is the second year for the annual “art walking tour,” where local businesses, restaurants, and shops open their doors to collaborate with artists, providing art “exhibtions in unusual places.”
Last year, Deb and I made a “Chinatown Remixed” sign from electroluminescent [...]

Printed circuit board (PCB) etching

Scope
This post assumes some knowledge of PCB etching methods and is an account of my experience with the toner transfer method. If this is new to you, you may have to get Googling on a few of things mentioned here. That said, I’ve linked to the sites I found most useful during the process.
Intro
Up until [...]

Tweet all about it: Ottawa’s Chinatown goes global

TWITTER ACTIVATED LIGHT BOXES ON DISPLAY AT ORIENTAL CHARM GIFT SHOP [ 653 SOMERSET ST. W., OTTAWA ] FROM MAY 8 – JUNE 8 2010
Ottawa (Ontario) – You won’t want to miss it! Ottawa’s second annual Chinatown Remixed event is happening Saturday, May 8, from 2-5 p.m.
Walk the streets of Somerset West as you take [...]

Electric Window 4.xx

In addition to the advancements made to the Electric Window 3.xx series back in December, I also started a new light box series, Electric Window 4.xx:

This series revolves around a matrix of 16 LEDs with individually controlled brightness and fading, making it an organic/analog sibling to the 3.xx series which uses LED screens with a [...]

Light cube prototype

Continuing to turn inspiration into reality, Deb and I unpacked our new table saw, installed the acrylic-capable blade, and got to work cutting and gluing.  The result is a prototype for a new series of light boxes/cubes:

Electric Window 3.03

With the inspiration of using acrylic as an artistic/structural medium mixed with the notion of baring it all in terms of circuit board exposure, as outlined in this previous post, I set about to realize the next entry in the Electric Window 3.xx series with a new perspective:

[ Build details and more photos after the [...]