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Tech notes from a museum tech person. Digital art conservation, self-hosting, AI experiments, and whatever I'm currently tinkering with. Less formal than my professional site.
Recent Posts
Reverse Engineering a Brother Label Printer Driver
The QL-700 switches itself off after 60 minutes and Brother only ships that setting as a Windows dialog. Here is how I pulled the USB command out of the driver binary, on Linux, without running Windows once.
Reverse Engineering the Gallery Spotlights
Our motorised gallery spotlights could only be driven from a vendor app. Getting a script to move them took a Bluetooth-mesh protocol, a camera pointed at a lamp, and one very stubborn bug that turned out to be two characteristics swapped.
Eden.Garden Joins SFMOMA and ZKM
Tale of Tales' 2001 net-art piece Eden.Garden 1.0 has been jointly acquired by SFMOMA and ZKM — a browser-based work that grows a digital Eden out of any website's HTML.
netart-extinction — A Timeline of How Digital Art Goes Extinct
128 dependency changes — Flash blocked, Pulse 3D gone, the <blink> tag removed — mapped against the eleven thousand net artworks they broke. A public timeline of why digital art dies.
Two Talks at GPN24 — Running a Museum, and Turning Research into an Exhibition
I gave two talks at this year's Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe: one on the software that keeps a museum switched on, one on how a multi-year browser-art research project became a ZKM exhibition. Both are recorded.