Shackleton

A Twitter novel about Ernest Shackleton's
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Shackleton's Twitter
Shackleton's blog

Project description on: HiLobrow

#Scryberspace

The online oracle. Let John Dee assist you in your search.

Project website: #scryberspace
John Dee on Twitter: @scryberspace

Project description on: HiLobrow
Review on Gearfuse: Art-Hacking the Search Experience

SmartJacket

A 2D barcode embroidered on the jacket links to my Twitter feed.
Tweet a stranger across a crowded room.

Merit Badges

You need them. Yes, you do. But to get them, you must earn them.
Featured on HiLobrow.com.

Real badges for virtual merits. Earn, trade, sew under lapels.

Theremina

Theremina, the theremin-playing robot. Performances to accompany Radium-Age Podcasts, a series of science fiction readings from the early 20th century with musical accompaniment and sound effects.

Performed by Peggy Nelson
Series hosted by Joshua Glenn

Children of the Volcano

Strangely, Icelandic sagas had no volcanoes. A piece for Eyjafjallajökull: finding the missing link in the written record, and the oral tradition.
3 min.

Voice and sound design by Peggy Nelson
Written by Matthew Battles

Listen on HiLobrow: Children of the Volcano

In Search of Adele H

A 10-month Twitter movie about Adele Hugo - the historical person, the film, the madness, the fiction. Inspired by the Fluxus Movement, the movie was text-based and comprised of Twitter posts, with additional short videos, images, music, and blog posts.

In Search of AdeleH's Twitter
In Search of AdeleH's Tumblr

Portrait of the Artist as Attention Span

Attention gets a lot of attention these days!
I was the first virtual Artist-in-Residence at HiLobrow.com.
During my one-month tenure in December 2009, I used "attention" as an art material, and blogged daily about art and the virtual life.

Etiquette in the Age of the Cellphone: Set to Vibrate
Reading is addiction: That's Entertainment
Mutants-R-Us: I, Avatar
How an artist makes a living: Eloi and Morlocks

All my articles on HiLobrow

A Polyamory Primer

A primer about the promiscuity of information told in PowerPoint.

Watch online: A Polyamory Primer

The Cones Project

In which an orange traffic cone illegally reserves spaces all over town. A live performance - Flickr/Maps mashup.

Concept, Acting, Intervention, Mashup by Peggy Nelson
Photography by Lydia Kuhn

Project website: www.theconesproject.com

Avatar Romance

An online comic about a virtual love triangle between two Second Life avatars and Facebook. Created as an iGoogle dynamic theme, it runs from 7:00am - 6:00pm EST, episodes update on the hour.

Add theme to your iGoogle portal page

See theme as comic strip

The Thrilla in Wasilla

Short film about an election-year wrestling smackdown between the leading ladies of politics.
11 min.

Masks by Peggy Nelson
Film writted and directed by Jeff Stern

Watch film on Vimeo: The Thrilla in Wasilla

Sacrilege

A music video for Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys.
7 min.

Animation by Peggy Nelson
Music, art, performance by Walter and Edrie
Directed by Ted Cormey

Watch film on Vimeo: Sacrilege

Web021 . . .

An augmented reality walking tour using 2D barcodes placed at various locations around town, and read with cellphones. Web 021. . . invites the participant to reflect on the combination of technology, narrative, nature, and fantasy that produce the experience of place.

Project website: www.web021.org

Welcome to The Wireforest

Band website as online comic strip, with music, video, animations, blogs, and easter eggs. The Wireforest is a single horizontally-scrolling page featuring the music of Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, and Walter Sickert's illustrations.

Project website: www.armyoftoys.com

The Audio Tour

A randomized interactive walking tour based on psychogeography. With The Audio Tour, listening stations and entries are chosen at random. Connections observed reveal the "real city," including your own emotional experience of place. Created for Burning Man 2006, tours have been conducted in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the desert, the mountains, and even indoors.

Project website and downloadable mp3 files: theaudiotour.com.

Jump!

An acoustic version of the Van Halen classic, suitable for children.
3 min.

Guitar and vocals: Jeff Stern

Watch film on Vimeo: Jump!

Selling the Number One (1)

EBay auction to sell the number 1. Text from item for sale: You've always wanted to be number one. Why not own it? Bid now for your chance to own The Number One (1), the integer we all know and love: it's rational, it's positive, it's very real. And it can be yours. Be the first, literally, to own the first.

Item sold on eBay for $11.11, on April 11, 2005.

Filmstrip

An educational filmstrip for young adults about the perils and absurdities of modern relationships. Using the imagery and format of 1960s elementary school filmstrips, Filmstrip tackles infidelity, open relationships, California, Burning Man: all those things you wish you had been taught in school.
5 min.

SXSW, 2006
19th Annual Dallas Video Festival, 2006
Santa Cruz Film Festival V, 2006
Boston Cinema Census 5, 2006

Project website: Filmstrip

Silent Movie/Fluxus Piece

Old media, new forms. Just the title cards, as Javascript alerts.
Javascript, 3 min.

Project website: Silent Movie

Scorpio

Did you ever feel like people are stealing all your great ideas? Paranoia, lists, and tinfoil hats. Guest starring the Scorpion Bagel.
7 min.

Watch film on Vimeo: Scorpio

Anamnesis

A comedy about the gnosis of memory, featuring a girls' night in with Quartermass and the Pit.
6 min.

Watch film on Vimeo: Anamnesis

Audience

An interactive video and sound piece that asks: what if the movie is watching you? An infrared camera was pointed at the audience and live footage projected onscreen, while a soundtrack of squeaky movie seats, coughing and rustling was played. When the audience realized it was live projection, they started doing "the wave."
5 min.

Performed at Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA, 2005.

Covers

Graffiti-style photographic installations that place a Polaroid of the thing, on the thing. Various locations in and around Boston.

Apples

A street installation in which apples were hung with fishing line on all the trees around my neighborhood in Prenzlauer Berg.
Oderbergerstr., Berlin.