@coinop29

Artist, critical maker, Associate Professor @ JMS / Lehman College / CUNY, Scrapyard Challenge co-founder

brooklyn
Joined May 2009
I built a new variant in my Unequal Weather project series, this one is "Unequal Weather NYC" that uses A.I. to show differences in weather forecasts in neighborhoods across the 5 boroughs based on economic factors. Experience it here: unequalweather.coin-operated…
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I'm excited to be giving a keynote lecture and lead a critical software workshop at this conference on AI and Critical Creative Futures @nu_ctm in Boston, October 29, 2026. See you in Boston! Schedule here: camd.northeastern.edu/events…
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We are super excited to be included in this upcoming show at @whitneymuseum celebrating 25 years of ArtPort. Our work, "America's Got No Talent", and "BumpList" are included in the show! Check it out here: whitney.org/exhibitions/artp…
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New video of my Tesla Tears video game where you drive around a city as a fired government worker trying to collect back pay list during the U.S. government shutdown of 2025. youtu.be/awJr5JTlphk?feature…
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Steering wheel controller for my classic arcade game/ art project “Tesla Tears” installing in June in NYC. Details coming soon.
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I built a prototype to combat endless circling which causes excess environmental pollution, called “NYC Street Parking Spot Finder". Users mark their spots on the map when they leave a spot which expires after a few minutes. Check out the prototype here: nycstreetparking.cloud
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Back in 2010 I received this recognition from author, genius Bruce Sterling who I highly admire.
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We checked out the opening of the @whitneymuseum biennial. Some pics..
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I participated in the ITP/IMA/ITP - NYU Stupid Hackathon yesterday in Brooklyn and made this "stupid" project.... The concept is that If you scream very loudly, it mutes your computer... Main Link: scream2mute.info Video: youtube.com/watch?v=pmitJrqf…
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My project, Average Citizen", is an interactive public data sculpture that assigns visitors the average waiting time for a US public service. When a person sits, the chair silently counts down a duration drawn from real, publicly available municipal data. youtu.be/ruGjhTX1pq4
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gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/202… Article I wrote now published in the City University of New York Digital Humanities newsletter…
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My paper, “Artificial Intelligence Meets Critical Media Art Part 2” was accepted to the Electronic Visualisation & the Arts conference in London this July 13-17, 2026. Excited to present at this event for the second time. @evalondonconf. eva-london.org
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I made a new climate related project, “Unequal Weather” that looks at how even though NYC’s weather report says one thing, economic spacing and location mean something else in weather to different neighborhoods . “Unequal Weather” by Jonah Brucker-Cohen unequalweather.coin-operated…
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New artwork from me - "Crossing Algorithm" is an urban intervention that encodes a city’s history of pedestrian injury and development practices directly into the act of crossing the street. Video here: youtube.com/watch?v=S0D7E3q4… Link here: tinyurl.com/crossingalgorith…
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New project, "Infinite Factor Authentication" a project that subverts and critically examines the seemingly endless forms of authentication individuals must do to access their files in online environments. You will never authenticate again: ifa.coin-operated.com
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