Steve Or Steven Read - Gen Xer Xtraordinaire

Welcome to the 10th year of my Drupal content art system. I love electronics and art and music and all sorts of junk. Some of the things I say and do get added here gradually through a practice of what I call autodidocumenticism with the idea that life is art is content!


Featured Items from 1990-2014


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Generative Acrylic Paintings
Generative Acrylic Paintings
2005
Ongoing series of software generated acrylic/canvas paintings

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Screen Burn (please wait)
Screen Burn (please wait)
2005
An old monitor is phosphor burned yet the screen is saved

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The Color Channel
The Color Channel
2005
A mini-series of software television paintings

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The Worst Band You Never Heard In Your Life
The Worst Band You Never Heard In Your Life
2007
Generative sound piece using found amateur musician tracks

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Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Self-Portrait
Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Self-Portrait
2008
Portrait of the artist as an indexable young man

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Imaginary Data
Imaginary Data
2006
Series of large watercolor pencil paintings on canvas

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eBay TV
eBay TV
2008
Series of found photographs from eBay.com depicting televisions for sale

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Metadata Abstractions
Metadata Abstractions
2008
An attempt to use metadata incorrectly

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Crash & Burn
Crash & Burn
2008
Screen burning a crashed Macintosh Classic II computer

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Gorilla.bas Screen Burns
Gorilla.bas Screen Burns
2008
3 screen burns on vintage PC computers using Microsoft gorilla.bas code

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Mini Arcade Dot Com
Mini Arcade Dot Com
2000
Electronic video game/toy/gadget museum which has been online since 2000

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Photo Noise
Photo Noise
2004
A project that democratically curates an endless art show of found digital photography

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Microcomputers
Microcomputers
2008
A cluster of electronically modified 80's vintage toy microwaves

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TV Colorizer Patternizer
TV Colorizer Patternizer
2008
A small vintage pattern generating television set

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Super Monkey Kong
Super Monkey Kong
2009
An electronic LED version of Donkey Kong programmed for the Meggy Jr hand-held game system

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Steamin' Cup o' Joe
Steamin' Cup o' Joe
1990
My psych prog punk band that rocked the Southeastern US from 1990 to 1995

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Stove Slots
Stove Slots
2009
A trio of toy stoves electronically modified into a non-randomized slot machine

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Susan Powter dines with Andy Warhol
Susan Powter dines with Andy Warhol
2010
Video diptych comprised of streamed synchronized screen captures of artful eating performances

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Untitled Conclusivist Painting (Seascape)
Untitled Conclusivist Painting (Seascape)
2007
Large watercolor pencil on canvas painting

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Legion of Venom
Legion of Venom
2010
Found celebrity photos which I watermarked as property of the band Venom

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the red ball
the red ball
July 23rd, 2011
Gif Point

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Spring Fever
Spring Fever
2011
Collection of microblog points about hiking the Appalachian Trail in Virginia for a month in early spring

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Art = Form + Content
Art = Form + Content
January 1st, 2013
Drawing Point

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Offline Appalachian Trail Topo Maps For Android
Offline Appalachian Trail Topo Maps For Android
2013
Open Source Dataset of Appalachian Trail Topographic Hiking Maps

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Narco States Music
Narco States Music
2013
Drumming and such with the Minneapolis garage rock band Narco States

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GIFTAMZT7J
GIFTAMZT7J
2012
A picture frame gift that became a gift frame picture



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