(more about finding high quality partners vs. content hosts)

(more about ideas i want to find homes for)

cold outreach and pitches

“why”s exercises and drafts

(week two)

a folder party party: an event or workshop where people create websites from their file system and invite others to hang out

Html sketches

Self-hosting websites with Tor

Meet me on the deep net

recent experiments

Make your computer a home that your friends can visit

in my day job, i make tools for other programmers. i’m also a huge cyclist, powerlifter, and public park fan :)

i invest in practices of public digital infrastructure and social computing

i build tools for seeing, hiding, hosting, generating, and playing

i want to make networked technologies more transparent, human, and malleable

i make software, websites, workshops, drawings, wearables, sculptures, books, and probably other things i’m forgetting

i’m an artist and a programmer excited about homemade internets and technology skillshare

expanding into community server care, running tor relays, other forms of self-hosting websites

ideas i’d like to find a home for

server protest: haunting the server logs of corporations with messages of protest & liberation

executable terminal poetry

unstable websites: experimenting with viewing regular everyday websites (like reddit) behind the trickster web server i’ve built

developing an a la carte version of my workshops on tor and self-hosting websites

technical guides as poetry, literature

are there any timelines for me sharing work through the gallery?

how do you like to work with artists?

what’s on my mind for this time

for the ideas i’d like to find a home for?

i’d also like to have conversations and get feedback!

are there institutions i want to work with? how can i identify funding or support opportunities in the hyphenated space?

“too creative” for technical residencies

“too technical” for creative residencies

when you have a hyphenated practice (especially one that works with niche technologies), how do you “translate” and pitch your work?

lots of thinking and strategizing about how to pitch my work and partner with institutions

professional development!

concrete outputs might include:

re-designing my website

re-writing my artist statement

writing draft pitches for opportunities i want to apply to later this year

a technical guide and workshop series for hosting your own websites using tor (which is often associated with “the dark web”)

the series demystifies privacy-centric tools and uses them for social computing and creative coding

in the workshop, we all create our own websites, host them from our computers, and link them together to form an “onion ring”

the second half of the game is a collective digital landscape hosted on tor that players can visit and contribute to

my sketchpad for prototyping strange, silly, and thoughtful websites

highlights include:

a trickster web server, which won’t give you what you ask for

a haunted website, where your mouse pointer is a ghost

a website that spells out a message that’s only visible in the network requests it makes

and i made a folder party website generator that people can use to host their own parties

i’m hosting my own folder party from a computer inside my house that people can visit over the internet

thinking about websites like a collection of files that you invite your friends over to explore

protocol storytelling :)

the story of the game is based on how websites can be visited and hosted anonymously over the tor network

a browser-based game about finding connection with a stranger while being anonymous

introductions