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This isn’t the reason I quit painting, but it could have been.

Part 2 of my conversation with Bret Taylor of Friendfeed at Supernova 2008 in San Francisco.

Bret Taylor of FriendFeed (2 of 2) from therefore on Vimeo.

At Supernova I got a chance to sit down and talk with Bret Taylor of Freindfeed, which, along with Seesmic, is one of the most interesting silicon valley web startups. Friendfeed enables conversations around media objects such as twitter messages, favorited news items, and blog posts. My friendfeed ID is therefore. Here’s part 1 of the discussion. Click here to view in HD.

Bret Taylor of FriendFeed (1 of 2) from therefore on Vimeo.

Which one will get us to Chinese food in downtown San Francisco faster?

Co-starring Dan Langendorf www.twitter.com/dlangendorf

Without a compass, mobile GPS is difficult. I can’t auto correct for orientation in my head and would like for the map app to do it for me. Hopefully we’ll have a in compass our devices soon, then the apps and eventually any virtual objects in the world will orient properly.

Supernova and TechCrunch were looking for the next great mobile ideas. They chose MobileLab.

My MobileLab research group at the university has been invited to present its work in the Mobile Connections: The Next Great Ideas? Panel, co-hosted by Tech Crunch, at the Supernova 2008 conference in San Francisco on Monday June 16.

Our work will be presented with several others whose ideas were selected because they represent “game-changing innovations that provide a glimpse of the wireless future”.

I will talk about our augmented reality work with Texas Instruments and Ericsson.

Real Time, the mobile video art show which premiered at the Dallas Contemporary, is playing the Pocket Films Festival at the Pompidou in Paris. The show had a great run here. Here’s a video of the show:

Real Time Mobile Video Art Exhibition from therefore on Vimeo.

What I’m talking about on Twitter. Interestingly (and typical), twitter itself ranks high. Can you say Echo (echo) ( e c h 0 ) chamber?

my favorite videos from the Real Time Exhibition.

I’ve been experimenting with Seesmic, which is a form of threaded video conversations. It extracts the kind of reply-to conversations that have sprung up on YouTube in the last few years. The environment makes me want to be absurdist and performative. This is because every kind of recording (audio or video) I’ve ever done has always been some form of performance, so the tendency is still there with Seesmic. Basically on this night, my first on the platform, I turned myself into a caricature or avatar. The full thread with responses is here. btw on the last video when the blue light goes out that was an accident. The light is my screen saver and it went to sleep mode.

My graduate Virtual Worlds class will present “Virtual World Art & Design in Second Life”, Saturday, May 3, at the Dallas Museum of Art’s Horchow Auditorium at 7 and 9 p.m. as part of the museum’s opening for the Center for Creative Connections @ the DMA. It is a free event.

In between presentations the auditorium will be an open lab for visitors to ask questions and interact with the student researchers, and the inter.sect mobile art group will be creating live video works.

The event will be streamed live from my mobile phone. I’ll put up a live link on emac.utdallas.edu just before the event.

A Microportrait of artist Marisa Olson