Hey Justin thanks alot, looking forward to being a little more regular with it. Any suggestions for an article

Glad to see you back. I’m hoping to use your site for a class I will be co-teaching at University of Michigan in Fall 2009. ‘Smartsurfaces’ will offer a project-based learning experience in which artists, designers, architects and engineers can come together to explore new possibilities for creating spaces that interact with the people who use them. The course will seek to create a multidisciplinary community of interest around the exploration of structural systems and surfaces augmented by networked computing elements that have the capability to learn and to adapt to new information and conditions. We will link information systems with physical form to produce dynamically variable, tactile ‘informatic’ or ‘smart’ surfaces. The course provides the framework for the development of new projects, fuelled by discourse between the three Schools of Art & Design; Architecture and Urban Planning; and Engineering. The course will be co-taught by 3 Professors: Karl Daubmann (of PLY Architecture); Max Shtein and me.

Cheers,
John Marshall.