I meant to send this email last month but then “the holidays” came up so I’m finally ready.

I’m back in the US after about 6 months in Germany. I had an incredible and productive time as an artist-in-resident at ZK/U in Berlin, and can’t wait to go back again.

This month’s newsletter is all about L5 , the creative coding library I’ve initiated, now out in its first alpha iteration. I’ve been working on it since July, and have put a couple hundred hours into it so far. Through my own word of mouth there is already a small community of people creating new projects, languages, and artworks with it. There have been a couple contributions from other people, and I’ve been reading blog posts from people that are already using it to make their artwork! That’s so awesome, particularly since I’m not active on social media beyond mastodon and instagram.

Hi, this is my short monthly email of projects and events.

Openhaus at ZK/U - art and performance

I'm wrapping up my 4 month artist-in-residency at ZK/U Berlin, presenting new work at the Openhaus (Open house) event here in the Moabit neighborhood of Berlin, DE this Thursday November 20, from 7pm - midnight. I'll show new in-progress studio projects I'm working on: experimental software, sound and animation I've created.

Hi, this is my monthly email of activities.

This month I dug in and worked on a number of projects in the studio at my residency at ZK/U in Berlin. I've had a really good month but also some personal challenges.

I started working with the Pollinator program of peer-coaching on our creative projects at the beginning of October, with others based in London, New York, Boston and Philippines. And I participated in the Creative Code Jam here in Berlin.

Hi, a short monthly email from me with info on my OpenHaus and performance Thursday, and an online project I released this month.

Openhaus and Performance this Thursday in Berlin

I'm an artist-in-resident at ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics in Moabit, Berlin, Germany. This Thursday is our Openhaus from 7pm until 11pm or so. I'll be performing a modular synth set as ExquisiteCorp at 8:30pm.

Guten tag.

I'm in my second month in Berlin and my first month at ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, in Moabit, Berlin, Germany.

Compost.party

Solar panel on a box on the roof, dithered
This past week and a half I've been taking care of the Compost.party server up on the roof of the ZK/U residency. It was delivered a week and a half ago by bike and we selected a place for it to maximize sunshine. Once a day I climb up to the roof, unplug the cable to the panel, then reset it. In addition, I've had to do some debugging and ops remotely with Arne, who is currently away with other co-founder Paula bikepacking in The Netherlands.

Hi friends, this is my (semi) monthly email of projects I'm working on.

If you want updates even more often (!), you can follow along with my semi-daily updated log page.

Heading to Berlin soon for sabbatical work

I am leaving soon for Berlin in early July, hopefully with visa in hand as I'm staying a bit longer than 3 months! If you have friends in that city, or live there yourself, let's meet up. I'm looking to meet other artists, perform music, and exhibit my work. The last time I had a break was when I had my concussion and went through concussion therapy for many months and even more recovery time, so I'm excited to have an actual sabbatical this time.

This is going to be a smaller monthly email I think. But in the spirit of using email as one alternative to commercial platforms, here we go...

If you have performances or events, reply to this email and invite me! If you have projects you're excited about, send them to me to check out. I also like good recipes and music suggestions, and feel free to add me to your newsletter subscribers.

Performance Sunday at the Living Gallery

Right off the bat: I'm performing tomorrow Sunday March 23, doors at 7pm, performances at 7:30pm at the Living Gallery, 1094 Broadway in Brooklyn. I'll be playing a modular synth set, with live A/V visuals by Paloma Kop, along with other musicians I'm excited to hear live.

Hi, another Lee Tusman email about my current projects. It's nice to have a place I can share my things that isn't on some corporate platform or making money for a billionaire. Here's what I'm up to. Feel free to respond to this email and let me know about your projects or link to music you're listening to, good books, protests, etc.

Request for help: If any academic friends have ever published a textbook or similar through turning their curriculum / class notes into a book, I'd love a chance to chat with you about the process. I take extensive class notes for each of my classes and basically build up a textbook with my own notes and (mostly) creative commons sources. It might be nice to package these as books. I'm also going to work in the fall to turn my podcast interviews into a book as well.

Hi! In this email I detail some of my recent projects, and then reviews of all the books I read this year. About a year or so ago I switched from Mailchimp (crappy interface, hard to use) to buttondown.com (easy to use, just paste in your text. No templates) for these emails and I think I am paying $45 a year to send them. Stop reading when you get bored/annoyed.

I am writing this at a coffeeshop. A man came in an hour ago with The Diaries of Franz Kafka, then looked at his phone for an hour, then left. So it goes.

I am blogging a lot lately. Send me your blogs! I like reading them before bed. In general, less platforms, less instagram, less facebook, less new thing, more blogging and newsletters from friends.

New and old projects

Hi, just a short check-in email on what I'm up to, as requested by Rob Dubbin and someone else (Max?) when I was at No Quarter games showcase on Saturday. I will send one more email in December, which will be my end of year review of every book I've read this year. Get ready.

At school since getting tenure they're trying to get me on a bunch of committees! I'm working on helping to kickstart a new animation major, in addition to supporting my New Media and Math/Computer Science departments.

I rebuilt my website this summer, thank god. It had been 5 years. Now it's modular and easy to add new pages.

Hi everyone,
I didn't send an email for a year and now a second one in a month. I'll keep it short. Here's what I'm up to, mostly in NYC this month.

Spiritual Machines: Emergent Behavior performances tomorrow

I am performing Saturday Sep 14, at the Emergent Behavior event for the Spiritual Machines exhibit that I also have an artwork in, and will be open during the show. The event is located on Governor's Island in NYC, in building 404 (Flux Factory).

Just some updates

Hi friends, I forget to send emails with what I’m up to in my life. I send these out between once a year up to 4 times a year. You are always welcomed to write me back with your own news, or a “hello”, or a great recipe or music you are listening to.

My current projects are always on my now page on my website. I also post occasionally to instagram and special.fish.

Hi folks, here's what I've been working on lately.

Gas gallery archive

For the past many months I've been working on building a digital archive for Gas gallery, a mobile, autonomous, experimental and networked platform for contemporary art located in a truck, parked at various sites around Los Angeles. Gas was founded and directed by Ceci Moss, and Ceci was an ideal partner to work with. Over the past two years I've been working on building out systems of support for artist-run spaces to engage in archiving projects, so this was a perfect collaboration.

Hi friends, here's one of my very occasional "what I'm up to" emails. I hope you are all well.

New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists, this Friday in NYC

For the past year and change I've been working on the podcast Artists and Hackers. This winter I've partnered with the New Media Caucus for a live event and series of episodes.

Hello everyone, here's my irregular update of things I'm interested in and working on. These are occasional emails I send of my various projects.

I try to maintain an always-up-to-date text page with my current projects here: now.

I'm always interested in potential collaborations, friends, feedback and opportunities.

Hi friends, I wanted to send an email newsletter out monthly or semi-monthly, but it’s been a year I think!

Now

I’ve been trying to rest a few months, recovering from a serious concussion in February and another medical issue that I’ll have surgery to correct sometime this summer. But overall feeling good about summer weather, friends, family, romance and creating art with friends.

I try to maintain an always-up-to-date text page with my current projects here: now.

Hello and greetings from Aarhus, Denmark.

Note: Some images in this email come from participants in the workshop Open Source Tools for Artists

Hello! It’s been a long time since I’ve written, and I think this is only email ‘newsletter’ #3. Life happens. This email includes both life and ‘work’ and links.

Year of Mourning

Still Here

Hello! It's been a long time since I've written, and I think this is only email 'newsletter' #3. Life happens. This email includes both life and 'work' and links.

Year of Mourning

Hi, this is my occasional email newsletter. Unsubscribe if not interested. I won't be offended.

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