@artmatrco I had just created video art and couldn't get galleries to represent me so in 2004 I started publishing my work to the internet and fell in with the first videoblogging crew pre-youtube. I developed that into the Make Magazine Video Blog and pioneered howto video blogging.
@artmatrco The Cult of Done Manifesto documents my lifestyle at that time. It was a time of relentlessly creating a new project and documenting it every week. I started working at Etsy in it's early days and started NYCResistor with friends to have a place to work.
@artmatrco NYCResistor in 2007 was a moment where I woke up to the idea of infrastructure as an art form. We had been inspired by Chaos Computer Club and the crew at C4 had given us the Hacker Space Design Patterns and we applied it and shared it and saw the pattern spread across the US.
@artmatrco Out of NYCResistor came MakerBot and Thingiverse. I went from making a project every week to spending six years on one project. We started MakerBot with the idea of ending money by distributing the means of production and it became an awesome venture-backed high-growth startup.
@artmatrco In the Hackerspace Design Patterns, when given the choice between projects and infrastructure in a community, choose infrastructure. MakerBot and Thingiverse were deep infrastructure projects and a platform for others to literally make anything and share anythings.
@artmatrco With Bre and Co. we ran the customer through a gauntlet to write a very special note to go along with the gift that would show the receiver that they were seen and loved. It was intimate and most folks cried writing it and everyone who got one cried getting it. Very intimate.
@artmatrco True intimacy and the internet aren't really the best of friends and we saw folks come to the store, be asked to go deep and then they would leave the browser. At the same time the Navy Yard started pile driving for the Wegmans and the machines and people were grumpy.
@artmatrco I've been collecting computer art created on a plotter and have also been collecting the old plotters. Starting in early 2020 I started making art again and it felt great. I'm still building infrastructure but I feel like I've got more of a balance making art too.
@artmatrco Here are some plotter portraits I made of friends. The process is that I scan them, clean them up in meshmixer, position and light them in Blender, output all the creases and edges and assemble them in Inkscape. They are plotted on HP 7550 plotters.
@artmatrco Here are some abstract works I created at that time as well. I developed a way with @lasern to use G2 pens in the old plotters but they required that I run the pens down to fit. These works were created as abstract works that would also run the ink out.