Kyle and I are bringing the building collective to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History from December 14, 2012 to March 17th, 2013. Come join us, hear about secret histories of Santa Cruz, share your own, and check out our giant concept map as it grows over the course of the show.

Meetings are Friday afternoons, every other week
2-5pm: the building collective will be working on mapping secret histories. Come share yours!
5-6pm: impromptu guest speakers will share their stories. Come eat snacks and hear about secret histories of Santa Cruz.

Topics
December 21st: Downtown
Jan 11st: Westside
Jan 25: UC Santa Cruz and the greenbelt
Feb 8: the mighty San Lorenzo River and its levees
Feb 22: Midtown / Seabright / Branciforte
Mar 8: Beach Flats / Boardwalk

buildingcollective.org
www.santacruzmah.org/2012/work-in-progress
sparc.ucsc.edu/buildingstories

Museum of Art and History (MAH), 3rd Floor 705 Front Street

Made possible with generous support from SPARC at UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

I am excited to announce that I just received an Alternative Exposure Grant for a future iteration of Hacking for Artists! Hacking sessions will begin next spring and consist of weekly workshops for Bay Area artists who want to incorporate computer programming and electronics into their practices. Details will be announced soon.

I recently hacked together a program that produces slit-scans of users’ desktops. Custom software slowly scans across the screen, taking about four minutes to complete, creating still images which illustrate both the spatial arrangement of software windows and the temporal flows of users’ activities. I have been distributing it without telling people what it does and asking them to send me the results. They produce fascinating maps of how people use their computers as their private activity is laid bare. Here are a few low resolution examples (all reproduced here with consent from users):

Katie, artist, Minneapolis

Matt; curator, writer, artist; Oakland

Rachel, artist, New York

Mark, programmer, Oakland

And head over to the photo blog for some snapshots from October.