Over the first half of 2021, an online group participated in Tom Sachs' Nikecraft Wear Tester program. A series of challenges acted as prompts that these people used to develop a collection of art. The finale for the Wear Tester program was an art show in New York City. Published on the occasion of: Endurance June 25th, 2021 - July 25th, 2021 1250 6th Ave, Rockefeller Center, New York City,

A JavaScript algorithm grows seven panels from either the top or bottom of an image.     Output from this algorithm can be purchased on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm uses a three segment line to partition space by approximately 1/3.     Output from this algorithm can be purchased on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly partitions space with perpendicular lines.     Output from this algorithm can be purchased on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly partitions space and fills the upper left corner with a staggered gradient that transitions from dark to light.     Output from this algorithm is available as high quality prints and as NFTs on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly creates five pentagons inspired by the shells of an Armadillo.     Output from this algorithm is available as high quality prints and as NFTs on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly places six sets of concentric circles. The rings in each set are randomly placed.     This algorithm was born out of Tom Sachs’ NikeCraft Weartester program. Output from this algorithm was minted as a physical ‘Not a Fucking Token’ and displayed at Endurance. RockeFeller Center, New York(US). Available as high quality prints and as NFTs on OpenSea.

A JavaScript algorithm randomly partitions two bottom corners and climbs to the top of the image.     Output from this algorithm is available as high quality prints and as NFTs on OpenSea.

Not Fucking Tokens (NFTs) are the hot new thing in art. Collectors from around the world are adding these new commodities to their investment portfolio. Below is the first NFT drop from experimental artist, Clinton Freeman.   How do I buy one? Like other NFTs, you must start with regulated fiat currency first. Visa, Mastercard and American Express are all accepted. Send an email to my-first-name@reprage.com, you’ll want to replace my-first-name with my actual first name (clinton).

  Cartoon heroes caught in a series of precarious circumstances are projected in front of an audience of innocent bystanders. As the clock ticks down, our heroes face certain danger. But tragedy can be avoided! With a simple text message, you can be part of the solution. But it will take a few of you. If witnesses can rally enough people to participate in time, the hero can be saved.

Red Light was programmed as part of the socially distanced 2020 Brisbane Festival, billed as bedtime stories for adults, I developed virtual theatre software to deliver the performance as a phone call. With capacity for 170 patrons, switchboard software dials the audience into a radio play style performance. The dialling algorithm is able to deal with common situations such as missed calls and voice mail, retrying a few times to ensure a patron doesn’t miss the performance.

  A 3/8ths 3V geodesic dome constructed for the Tom Sachs workshop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This workshop was an In-Situ Resource Utilization (i.s.r.u.) exercise, the brief was to use materials found in our location. Our dome was constructed from sticks and cable ties. Dimensions: 3000mm diameter (9ft 10in)

The American sculptor, Tom Sachs runs his studio just like a space program. He’s conducted his own exploration missions of the Moon, Mars and Europa. Built a full-size Luna Exploration Module out of plywood and a 3-metre-tall space shuttle from foamcore. Tom doesn’t see his practice as NASA stagecraft, but rather an extension of NASA itself. He uses a NASA letterhead emblazed with ‘Sachs Research Laboratory’ and issues each staff member with NASA identification.

I got my old filing cabinet from this awesome office seconds place in Brisbane, it only cost $15 or something like that. However, the more we moved house, the more I loathed the bloody thing. The drawer slides had started to stick and squeal, plus it was big and bulky. Building this replacement ended up being the perfect lockdown project. I had been looking for an excuse to experiment with rabbet joinery and it looked like I already had all the supplies I needed in the workshop: Caster wheels, plywood, paint, even the drawer slides (well almost, I had to order one extra set online – but that was the only thing, all the other materials I could scrounge at home).

When I was a kid, my primary school had a single Apple IIe computer. It lived on a cart so that it could travel from class to class. It would spend a couple of weeks in our classroom before moving onto the next. Sheesh. That sounds a bit like one of those “back in my day” stories; the ones where our parents would trudge fifty miles in the snow to get to school.

  Current events have left many of us with our legs dangling over the existential abyss. Issue Two of Analogues Anonymous offers relief for this uncomfortable predicament with a certificate that validates the recipient’s existence as 100% authentic. Locked away in a secure, and appropriately distanced ‘Antisocial Network’, is the catalogue of 100% sentient compatible beings. A support hotline offers certificate holders the opportunity to have their existence fully verified against the Antisocial Network.

Recently, the American sculptor Tom Sachs has been hosting office hours on Instagram. My standout favourite so far has been a talk he gave about Sol LeWitt on the 23rd of April 2020. In particular, this monologue describing wall drawings was brilliant: You can see these variations… [what is] cool about the wall drawings is that you have these… strict lines, but there is all this art and expression of the individual.

About a decade ago my friend Vanessels gave me a table. It had been made by her Grandfather as a kitchen table for his family. It had been passed down in the family and had been gathering dust underneath someone’s house by the time it came into my possession. The poor table was in dire need of restoration, it needed the right amount of love and geometry to preserve its heirloom status.

  Large inflatable spheres were suspended above a pathway along Lake Placid as of a 2019 Cairns Festival ‘Suburban Satellite’. Set in front of a red illuminated rock wall, these disembodied orbs of light faded in and out of the silhouetted foliage. Each orb was stuffed with a custom-built lighting controller and powered by a single 18650 battery. Season: 2019/08/28, Cairns Festival, Lake Placid (AU) Duration: 4 hours

Developed in conjunction with Flipside Circus and the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’, I created theatrical heart rate monitors and pedometers. My custom-built hardware was incorporated into a series of techno-circus experiments. Statum explored the interplay between human bodies and technology – audiences are invited to inhabit performer’s bodies, analyse their heart rate, and explore the interplay between acrobats. Season: 2019/10/17 - 2019/10/27, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane (AU) Duration: 60 minutes.

  I developed a fully functional polygraph machine as part of my work within the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’. Custom software inferred a lie likelihood from biometric stress markers obtained from three different sensors. My custom built hardware broadcasted OSC messages that were used to dynamically alter the audio and visual environment of the performance. Truth Machine explored truth in a world of fake news and alternative facts.

  I developed an interactive tabletop voting system as part of my work within the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’. Hidden within the table were a series of 36 custom built RFID sensors, three for each place setting. When these sensors detected a voting token above, OSC messages were sent to a central computer that would tally the common vote. Using a dinner party as a metaphor, Crunch Time is a performantive dinner party modelled on the democratic process.

  Persistence is an interactive adventure that was presented at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Festival. Audience members wore a custom built electronic badge, the artificially intelligent running coach Corey. Participants adopted the role of a runner, while Corey guided them around the Cairns Esplanade and through a series of challenges. Each challenge explored how they juggled the demands of their lives against their ambitions.

  Custom software observes the motion of fifty interactive spheres of light. When accelerating during interaction, they glow brightly. When left alone, they glow dimly. By engaging with the exhibit, visitors explored how their presence influences everyday life. Interaction with Inertia alters the experience for all those within the space. These transient social experiences hint at interactions with a wider community. How, through collective effort, communities become bright, attractive places.

  I developed SMS ‘switchboard’ software as part of my work within the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’. This switchboard software enabled operators to have about 100 simultaneous SMS conversations with participants within the audience. I used the Twilio API to communicate with the short message service, and a decision tree was used to structure the narrative of a character that they only ‘saw’ as SMS messages. Season: 2017/11/07 - 2017/11/18, Metro Arts.

  Opera is an over-engineered manhole cover. Software on a Raspberry Pi reads audio data from a Behringer C-2 microphone, which is passed into a fast fourier transform and used to generate a lighting sequence based on the audio data. Season: 2016/08/06 - 2016/10/01, eight-by-ten. KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns(AU). Dimensions: 1050 x 820 x 300mm Credits: Music: Metaeaux Related Articles: How to Connect a Studio Microphone to the Raspberry Pi What are the best SD cards to use in a Raspberry Pi?

Weather Machine II is an interactive installation developed by Nathen Street for the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service. Inspired by the natural water cycle, the machine captures the essence of evaporation, precipitation and flow. When someone grips monitor paddles, their heartbeat powers the different phases of the water cycle: tornado (evaporation), precipitation (water dripping into collection bowls) and flow process (water moving through and reused in a closed system).

This is Capital City was a site specific theatre performance presented at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Audience members carried an Android based mobile device that played audio at different locations around the powerhouse. I wrote software that ran on the mobile devices, and used iBeacons for indoor positioning. Related Articles: How accurate are Estimote iBeacons How responsive are Estimote iBeacons Source code: TriggerTracker Credits: Director: Sandra Carluccio Dramaturg: Nathan Sibthorpe Writer: Toby Martin Sound designer: Mike Willmett Live Cast: Kylie Stephenson, Cameron Clark, Terri-Leigh Redding and Christos Mourtzakis Voice actors: Peter Cossar, Sandra Gattenhof, Lauren Jackson, Toby Martin, Kate O’Sullivan, Belinda Rasin and Lucas Stibbard

The fifth curiosity of my monastic engineering experience. This is a combination floor lamp, book case, bedside table and charging station. Made from plywood and stainless steel if features exposed circuitry and wiring. Published on the side of the cabinet is the dimming software running on an Arduino nano. A 10cm diameter aluminium hand wheel controls the lamp dimming feature. Acknowledgements: The ‘Pradhan’ light switch, was a gift from Michael Candy, who found it on his travels through India.

Analogue.js is a canvas based typesetter that better simulates the output of a mechanical typewriter. Add the 'analogue' class to your element and analogue.js will do the rest. Analogue replaces existing HTML elements with a canvas. It then generates a unique ink-strike for each key-press, along with any misalignment. It even occasionally smudges a character or renders transpositional typos. The underlying font is a digitised version of IBM's Selectric typewriter ('Courier New').

I built a custom Android application as part of my work within the transmedia collective ‘Counterpilot’. Bluetooth iBeacons helped track the indoor location of participants as they moved around Brisbane’s domestic airport terminal. The position of the player dynamically mixed the underlying soundtrack and audio clues would be triggered at specific locations. Clarity in Transit was a word based, interactive treasure hunt style game. Season: 2014/11/14 - 2014/11/18, Clarity in Transit.

TriggerTracker is an Android application used in site specific theatre performances. When used on mobile devices, TriggerTracker delivers content for immersive theatre experiences. Supporting both GPS and iBeacon positioning technology, TriggerTracker works in outdoor and indoor environments. Video and Audio files can be customised to play at specific locations and times. Dynamic soundtracks are also mixed live by TriggerTracker, creating a fluid atmosphere based on the location of participants. TriggerTracker powered performances: This is Capital City - Brisbane Powerhouse Clarity in Transit This is Capital City Where’s Alice This is Kansas City Source Code: https://github.

Golden Solution developed ‘Shower Party’ for the 2014 Nextwave festival in Melbourne. Partygoers and a goldfish were combined into a symbiotic ecosystem, where drinks consumed by patrons drained the fishes tank by an equal amount. Meanwhile the movement of the fish distorted the sound track heard by party goers. Over three hours, an exploration of the tragedy of the commons unfolded. Would party goers destroy the fishes environment for their own personal inebriation?

  Golden Orbs is a series of suspended fractal cloud-like sculptures. Modelled on a simulated brain neurone, interaction stems from what each sculpture is able to observe. Fitted with a webcam, each sculpture monitors the space underneath for physical activity. Random lighting sequences are then seeded from any detected activity. Networked together, emergent lighting patterns unfold across the whole series of sculptures. These patterns are reminiscent of those found in EEG scans of the brain.

&nbps; A fruit fly experiment that also doubled as an interactive instrument. The readings from the experiment were taken live and synthesised into musical notes. Displayed at a Science Fair, children were able to ‘play’ the current state of the experiment. Participants were able to compare the sounds made by the different dependant variables against the sounds made by the control conditions. Related Articles: UNTITLED SOUND PROJECT TWO. Source Code: https://github.

Datavyu (formally named OpenSHAPA) is an opensource desktop application for researchers. Datavyu integrates and displays all kinds of data, letting you discover the big picture while remaining connected with raw data. Datavyu will let you build and organise interpretations, and will assist with analysis. Source Code: https://github.com/databrary/datavyu Acknowledgements: The earliest precursor to Datavyu is ‘MacSHAPA’. Penelope Sanderson designed MacSHAPA at the University of Illinois in the early 90’s. OpenSHAPA was the modernisation of MacSHAPA that evolved into DataVyu.

A location-aware game based on Pacman and developed for the pocketPC. The position of player in the game was determined by the real-world location of the user, that was derived by measuring signal strengths to local wireless base stations. This application was developed in embedded C++ and employed client/server architecture to shift complex computations to a more powerful stationary server. Related Articles: Madman. Source code: Pocket PC code written from when I was an undergraduate?