Nov 16th , 2006
Great news! My fulbright to go to Croatia has passed the first hurdle. There are two competitive stages and I just got approved on the first one. Now my application goes to the US Embassy in Zagreb for the final stage. Wish me luck!

Sept 20th , 2006
This is Autumn of paperwork hell. All my art projects are getting put on hold until the triumverate of Fulbright, Tenure, and Sabbatical applications are complete. The logistics that, I am sure, will help my art in the long term, are making me want to tear my hair out today.

August 11 th , 2006
Back in the USSA. Kids are away at Google. And I'm just starting to adjust to my old haunts. Not that I have much time for anything outside of the studio by day and the tenure file by night. Cool new phone project in the works... more later

July 22nd, 2006
Fulbright application is in. It feels pretty strong, but I haven't judged these things from the side that counts. Now I get to rest for a few weeks before starting on my application for Tenure.

June 13th , 2006
Grades are all in and I'm off to the UK and France for the summer. The big project (in addition to swimming in the Yonne, cheese tasting, a hitting the London galleries) will be writing my Fulbright application to go to Split in Croatia to teach and investigate the SE European New Media scene.

May 21st, 2006
Save the date! Wednesday June 7th, students in the CSU East Bay Multimedia Grad Program present their thesis projects. Some great stuff here.

May 4th, 2006
Congrats are due to Sarah Mattern and Seamus Byrne, two of my grad students, whose digital community storytelling project, the Organic City, just got an Honorable Mention from the Prix Ars Electronica. They are also close to getting a Webby. Go team!

May 1st, 2006
I decided to go for both pieces for the We2 show. The streaming text of the novel from Russia will work with a virtual texture font in flash and the animation generated on the client side. It'll probably take about five solid days from here. I'm calling it "What We Think", from the opening page of the book. The only question is whether it'll put too much burden on the average client machine.
The second piece "The Poetry Machine" will take some serious time, but I can get help filling in the details once I write most of the overarching pseudocode.