Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Member Since January 1, 1996

Jonah Brucker-Cohen is an award winning researcher, artist, and writer. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Lehman College / CUNY in the Bronx. He is a New INC. mentor and New York Hall of Science Designer in Residence. He received his Ph.D. in the Disruptive Design Team of the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department of Trinity College Dublin. His work focuses on the theme of “Deconstructing Networks” and includes over 100 creative projects that critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. His artwork has been exhibited and showcased at venues such as SFMOMA, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, MOMA, ICA London, Whitney Museum of American Art, Palais du Tokyo, Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, and more. His projects, “Bumplist” and “America’s Got No Talent” are both included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. His writing has appeared in publications such as WIRED, Make, Gizmodo, Neural and more. His hardware hacking Scrapyard Challenge workshops have been held in over 15 countries in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, and Australia since 2003.
Sept. 14 2015 11:21 on Locative Media Revisited

Another addition to this piece is the "Camera Restricta", a GPS and GSM enabled camera by Philipp Schmitt that disables its owner from taking pictures when it finds too many ...
Another app I forgot to add to this article's thematic focus is Brooklyn based artist, Jason K. Smith's "UZU" which has ben one of my favorite generative iOS simulations for ...
April 8 2014 10:38 on Locative Media Revisited

Another interesting project that relates to my article is "Art for Drones" by an artist collective in Pakistan who create art that shows the regions of the country where drones ...
April 2 2014 13:25 on Locative Media Revisited

As an addendum to this article, two more artists working with location-based data and Google Street View are:

1. Justin Blinder's "Vacated" (2014): http://projects.justinblinder.com/Vacated

2. Google ...
July 8 2009 09:15 on Art In Your Pocket

I never mentioned that the iPhone was "more open" once, I just mentioned that Apple has sold over 31 million iPhones which is more than any of the platforms you ...
July 8 2009 00:16 on Art In Your Pocket

Just wanted to chime in here to point out that none of these comments have anything to do with the "ART" itself, which is what the piece was focusing on ...
June 9 2009 15:08 on Report From FutureSonic 2009

Sonny is my best friend.. he's dead!?? shit.
May 23 2009 12:57 on Report From FutureSonic 2009

Who is Sonny?