video Red Blue Yellow This summer Karen Stein and I teamed up on a video for the Boston Convention Center marquee screen. We'd been thinking about the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus while working on our new-to-us
public-art Game of Late Night Working Life Documentation of my video Game of Late Night Working Life. The piece features Conway’s Game of Life playing out across the windows of a tall office building.
public-art Our Neighborhood Circa 1900 Last year I had the tremendous opportunity to collaborate with Laura Davidson — a friend and one of my favorite artists — on a video piece for Art on the Marquee. We explored the history
art Projecting Documentation Below is video documentation of my artwork, Projecting. This piece debuted in the show Grounded at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery last year. Projecting by Matthew Shanley
New Artwork in Grounded Exhibition Another announcement for folks in the Boston area. My piece Projecting will be on display starting this Friday as a part of the show Grounded at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery. This is going
Data Vis Talk Next Week Quick note for those of you in the Boston area. I’ll be giving a talk next Tuesday the 17th at CASCADE BOS. The talk is title “Data Visualization with Vega, Vega-Lite, and
Fort Point Windows documentation A few documentation shots from my installation Fort Point Windows from the show Big Picture III at Atlantic Wharf Gallery in Boston.
Lighthouse documentation This is going back a little ways, but I've finally gotten my act together and assembled some video documentation of Lighthouse. This was a public art installation I collaborated on that included sculptures,
Edge Cases in Fort Point Form show A few pieces from my Edge Cases series are in the show Fort Point Form opening at the Boston Convention Center this week. The opening reception is this Thursday, April 9, 2015 from
Walden, revisited Jane D. Marsching with Matthew Shanley, Ice Out at Walden, 201015 x 25 inches, edition of 5; collograph, dry point, japanese woodblock, digital printcreated at Ningyo Editions, Watertown, MA with David Curcio and
Andrea Polli's Particle Falls Particle Falls in Detroit from Andrea Polli on Vimeo. Particle Falls by Andrea Polli is a digital waterfall projected on the sides of buildings. The piece uses a nephelometer which shoots lasers through
public-art Fenway's 30 Second Cinema The Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Boston Art Commission recently announced “Fenway’s 30 Second Cinema”, a collection of video artwork presented on a digital sign next to
public-art Miraculous City Miraculous City, a site-specific piano and video projection performance takes place at the Illuminus Festival tomorrow night in Boston’s South End. It’s been a great experience collaborating on this with Elizabeth
applescript OmniFocus Entry from GitHub Ticket On my team we use GitHub for our ticket tracking system as well as our version control. I’m also a heavy user of OmniFocus for to-do management across all areas of my
art A Listener Tutorial from New American Public Art The good gentlemen over at New American Public Art have produced an excellent maker tutorial based on our Listener project. LISTENER – An Outdoor Weather Proof Audio Responsive LED Installation – Maker Tutorial If a
art Listener I recently worked with my friends Dan Sternof Beyer, Kawandeep Virdee, and Bevan Weissman of New American Public Art (NAPA), and Karen Stein Shanley of goodgood on a public art piece called Listener.
art Urban Screens: George Fifield at TEDxBoston In this interesting TEDx video, Boston Cyberarts’ George Fifield discusses video screens at the Boston Convention Center and the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion. He links these to a broader trend in art on
art Building Boston documentation video I shot some documentation of my Building Boston video, currently playing on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center marquee screens as part of the Art on the Marquee series. These screens are so
applescript Paste from CSV into Numbers Update: Moved the code into a gist. (2013-07-05) I was shocked to realize that Apple’s Numbers app doesn’t properly handle it if you try to paste CSV data in. It seems
art Charles Sowers's Windswept Beautiful sculpture here from Charles Sowers. It’s like a diagram from one of my old science text books come to life in a hypnotically dynamic way.