Bonner co-ran the art gallery Sixspace with Caryn Coleman, first in Chicago and later in Los Angeles.[8][9] Los Angeles Times coverage identified Bonner and Coleman as the owners of Sixspace, including in connection with the exhibition Sent: America's First Phonecam Art Show.[10]
In December 2007, Bonner was an artist in residence at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna through the Q21 program in the field of media art, invited by art group monochrom.[11]
Bonner was also part of the art and music collective Cross My Heart Hope To Die, which was featured in the 2014 exhibition Vita E Morte at Subliminal Projects.[12][13]
Bonner worked as art director for punk label Victory Records, and Shepard Fairey credited him with designing the packaging for Bad Brains' Omega Sessions.[14][15]
Bonner co-founded Blogging.la, a Los Angeles-focused group blog launched with Jason DeFillippo in 2003. The site later expanded into the Metroblogging city-blog network.[8][1][9] He was also a contributing editor to Boing Boing.[16]
After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Bonner co-founded Safecast with Pieter Franken and Joi Ito.[2][4][5] The organization became known for its citizen-generated environmental radiation data and later expanded into other forms of environmental sensing.[2][5] Bonner's Shuttleworth fellowship supported the development of open sensing tools connected to this work.[6][7]
Bonner was a co-founder of Crash Space, a Los Angeles hackerspace.[17][3] He also participated in Roboexotica in Vienna, giving a 2007 talk at the Roboexotica symposium Geist in der Maschine at MuseumsQuartier Wien.[18]
He appeared in the documentary Traceroute (2016), directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner.[19]
Bonner was a contributor to the 2024 book CryptoPunks: Free to Claim, published by Phaidon Press.[20]