Forget dance mats and joysticks, even trance vibrators: biofeedback is the cool interface on my Christmas wishlist. Slide three rings on your finger, pay $150 (or a little less) and play The Journey to Wild Divine, Steven Johnson writes in his December […]

“You were pretty good at keeping us informed through the course weblog and Studentportalen, and when you forgot, we just went to your blog and read what we were going to be doing there.” “Yeah, that was like an out-of-body experience – […]

Damn. I should have gone to bed while I was still tired. But no, now that I’ve finished preparing for tomorrow (and more) I’m wide awake. Bet ya I won’t be tomorrow.

You can fly Icelandair from Boston to Oslo. You save an hour compared to going via Copenhagen, but I’m not convinced it’s worth it: the forty minutes at Keplavik, the Rekjavik airport, are at the worst possible time of the flight. You’ve […]

Imagine a story that grows as you read it: Itís an awful idea. Imagine reading a story that may be a thousand words or a thousand pages long, you have no way of knowing which. It would be maddening. And yet thatís […]

I realised this evening, after Andrew had asked “so how’s Scott?” and “when’s Noah going to California?” and “did you get to see Nick?” that I’ve met 80% of Grandtextauto in the past week. I’m pretty happy with that. They’re all interesting, […]

I’m sitting in on one of Elin‘s classes at Mass Art and they’re showing some interesting new media work. Antenna Design‘s “Cherry Blossom” is a charming installation where passers by trigger flowers that grow on a screen. More people causes more flowers, […]

Mark blogged dinner last night – which was delicious as well as adventurous. I measured the snow against my leg today and it really is knee high.

I’m in Boston. I forgot my power adapter so I have no camera or telephone. There’s thick lumpy slippery snow everywhere, far deeper than most winters in Bergen ever produce, and everything’s chaotic, but I’m pretty happy with all these great friends […]

BEK – Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst – was in danger of having to shut down, but is now, wonderfully, on the national budget, as the first new media instution outside of Oslo!