September 14-17 2006
CONFLUX Festival 2006 for four days!

CONFLUX is the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets...

You can see my work "My Night Is Your Day" at Maiden Brooklyn. If you happen to be in Brooklyn, please stop by.

07/01. 2006
"every object can teach us something."

I was happy to be able to present to the Aula conference a couple of weeks ago. Aside from experiencing the magical light of Nordic midsummer night, and a most relaxing and happy time in Helsinki, there are few happy moments which continue to echo my head in a very simple and deep way.

One in particular was Ulla-Maaria's presentation about "Thinglink," and especially her explanation of how she came up with this project, inspired by Marx's insistence that "every object can teach us something." I found it very inspiring, in that we so rarely know the history of the things around us, and her work is all about returning these hidden stories to visibility.

12/08. 2005
Space and Culture


Tokyo Blues spotted at Space and Culture (a "cross-disciplinary journal of cultural studies that fosters the publication of reflections on a wide range of socio-spatial arenas.")
Many other great topics there. Thanks Anne!

11/17. 2005
Back from Design Engaged


Back from Berlin presenting my Tokyo Blues at DE 2005.

So many interesting insights, ideas with brilliant people!  
Some challenging issues that make me think...

-Rule set, game, toy, and play
-Craft and what are the materials in digital design?
-Nostalgia and how it has been designed as a product
-"matter of concern" vs "matter of fact"
-And beautiful info visualizations of Stamen!

-One of most simple game that Matt Jones designed for us
"give and take away badges" made me think a lot about visualization of feelings and communications.

Many thanks to all of you in DE!

8/05. 2005

News section will be posted containing information related with my work, and other interesting events that I want to share with you. In the meantime, please check out my Selected Work section.