exhibition New Exhibition: Machine Made Wisdom From May 2nd to June 30th you will be able to see new works on paper, in the Trinity Square Video Vitrine! Located on the fist floor of 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto,
art Modding NES Games for Fun and Art. Part 1: Super Lupo Bros. Old games for the Nintendo Entertainment System can be lightly hacked in order to change the sprites, sounds and more. My first hi-larious project was to insert myself in Super Mario Bros.
exhibition New Exhibition: Galaxy Champion FUN ZONE™ Galaxy Champion FUN ZONE™ is a two-person exhibition by Qendrim Hoti and Max Lupo which uses the video game technology of the past three decades to create an interactive installation.
art Beep-Boopatronics, the performance and installation This project reflects an obsession with wires, communication, and out-of-date consumer products. As a result, this installation explores systems of translation by dismantling objects on the outer edge of their usable life.
exhibition Upcoming Exhibition: Beep-Boopatronics This exhibition takes nearly obsolete objects and imbues them with new, but not always useful, functionality. In particular, this exhibition takes a chord organ which plays itself and connects it to a Beep-Boop Machine.
polaroid Polaroid Project #1: Development Timelapse The Impossible Project makes new film for old Polaroid cameras, and their newest iteration is their best yet. With changes to the opacifier used, the film can stand to be exposed to some light while its developing.
misc Work in Progress: The Piano Player I'm working on my MFA at OCADu, and one of the projects that is in progress is this, The Piano Player. The plan for the project is to take an electric chord organ, de-electrify it, and instead power it using a large balloon...
art Just Another Beep-Boop Machine Just Another Beep-Boop Machine is a small artwork, made to create an opportunity to play with music. A participant can punch holes in the provided cards, which are then used as the input information for the device to play a tune.
art The Mansfield Reporter The Mansfield Reporter is a device which can generate new text from some of history's greatest authors. By pressing the red button, you will be shown a new passage from either Friedrich Nietzsche, William Shakespeare, or Gertrude Stein.
devices The Continued Connection Device Here is a fun little invention, created so that you can acknowledge a strong connection between yourself and an other individual.
misc Fun With Microcontrollers: installing MicroPython on the Espruino Pico Recently, I became quite interested in a new microcontroller called the pyboard which gives you a low-level Python operating system that can be used to control all kinds of electronic projects. Sounds Fun!
art The Past Viewer, and Other Projections The Past Viewer is a small installation for 8mm film projection. It originally included a Brownie projector shooting its image onto a mirror, reflecting back to a piece of frosted mylar.
art I MADE THIS FOR YOU, The Performance and Installation This performance was part of my exhibition at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario. What you see here is now a part of the installation, and completes the artwork in the gallery.
art The Automatic Affirmation Device This device is a personal confidence booster, that is never wrong. Will today be a good day? Was college the right choice? With this device in hand, the answer is always YES. Obviously,
performance Upcoming Exhibition: I Made This For You As a whole, this show is a refinement of my thoughts around the power of an invented object to subvert the user's feelings of nostalgia and novelty, by providing an experience which contrasts with the expectation of the object.
polaroid My SX-70 In mid 2012, I became somewhat fascinated with the Polaroid SX-70. The camera is a folding SLR, and when released in 1972, it was Polaroid's first integral film camera.
exhibition Objects of Note @ VERSO Opening at VERSO on April 5th, is the exhibition of some brand new Objects of Note. The exhibition will include refined versions of my very favourite inventions, along with a set of my performances.
art The Dial Me a Story Phone The Dial Me a Story Phone is a little invention to help bring a little story into your ear. The body is a classic Northern Telecom wall-phone, but the guts have had a bit of an upgrade.
misc People and Objects Last October I had the good fortune of showing my work and doing a few performances with my exhibtion, Objects of Note. The net result of this was alot of people had a chance to see, and use the art work.
exhibition Exhibition: Objects of Note @ Awkward Stage Coming to Awkward Stage this Saturday is a new exhibition of my work titled, “Objects of Note”. The exhibition is a collection of my inventions, all of which are more (and less) than they appear to be!
art The Thermal Printing Doorbell Doorbells are boring. Everyone deserves a doorbell which introduces them to their visitor in an inviting way. This is the Thermal Printing Doorbell. It plays a little melody, then leaves you a little message.
misc My New 3D Printer, The Delightful Printrbot Jr. Isn't it just the cutest lil' 3D printer that you ever did see? Just like the last time, I ordered a 3D printer and it arrived as a big 0l’ box of miscellaneous parts. This time I have acquired a Printrbot Jr.
art Lost Cities These monotypes were made for a recent exhibition titled Lost Cities. The work is centered around ghost towns, a category of location whose presence is determined by an absence.
misc Junk-O-Types YOU can make a JUNK – O – TYPE out of any scrap paper that is needlessly resting in your pocket. Elevate your paper pocket junk to fine-art status by creating your very own limited edition print.
art J. Reynolds - Mystery Man J. Reynolds, an early daredevil active in the 1920′s, has tempted death more than once. How much is known about this man?
