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If it bleeds, it leads
By cdharris at December 20, 2006 | 10:47 am | 0 Comment
An installation by Caleb Larsen, is a compelling commentary on the public love affair with tragic stories and dramatic deaths.? In the piece, software continuously scans news headlines of 4,500 news sources, looking for mentions of human deaths. Each time it finds an article, an algorithm determines the number of deaths, and relays an instruction to a ceiling-mounted more...
Blog , Data Visualization , TechnoActivism , Technology and Art
Websites that “changed the world”
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 1:13 pm | 0 Comment
The UK's Guardian has published its lists of "15 Websites that changed the world." No big surprises: eBay, Napster, YouTube, Blogger, FriendsReunited (well, maybe that one...), DrudgeReport, MySpace, Amazon, Slashdot, Salon, Craigslist, Google, Yahoo, and Easyjet (that one, too...) more...
Visualizing Google Search
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 12:51 pm | 0 Comment
Google,? at SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston, showed an example of its own "search mashup" data visualization:? a spinning globe on which searches on Google are displayed in real-time as slowly rising dots in reference to their location and color-coded according to language. The idea is seductively simple in that it revealed the individual thoughts, motivations, or desires of the more...
Blog , Data Visualization , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Media and Markets
Gesture Recognition and Dance
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:46 am | 0 Comment
Recently premiered at the Tate Modern,? the performance piece "Echo" generates a pointcloud via gesture recognition technologies that both represents the dancer's movements and interacts with them.? According to the developers, the team,? UnitedVisualArtists, used an LED screen, the Lighthouse R10 LED screen, 8m wide by 11m high along with Point Grey Lab Bumblebee2 stereo more...
Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , Interactive Video , Technology and Art
Public Broadcasting in a Cart
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:27 am | 0 Comment
Ricardo Miranda Z??iga, instructor of Digital Arts at College of New Jersey, introduces recent immigrants to his Public Broadcast Cart. It is a shopping cart outfitted with all the technical ingredients that enables any pedestrian to become an active producer of an audio broadcast. The audio stream is available to anyone online and simultaneously transmitted via speakers, more...
Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , TechnoActivism , Technology and Art
Vector mapping for Google Maps API
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:15 am | 0 Comment
VGMap is a new library created by Eyebeam R&D that allows designers, developers, and mapping fans to overlay data on top of Google Maps in a richer way than is possible using their standard system. It is called VGMap because it adds vector-drawing capability to the GMap API. Eyebeam Labs reports that "the Google Maps API enables point and line data on their more...
Mobile Performance Group
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:10 am | 0 Comment
The Mobile Performance Group,? founded by Matt Roberts, is a collective of new media artists interested in finding new ways to present art outside of traditional venues. MPG disseminates their work by using automobiles, video projection, cell phones, FM transmission, wireless hotspots, and any other technologies that allow artist to engage the more...
Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , TechnoActivism , Technology and Art
Bus Ads change with location
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 10:56 am | 0 Comment
A new technology allows an ad-wrapped bus to change its ads as it changes its location. Now in test in London, the system automates message delivery in response to GPS location. For example, an ad for a fitness center in Marble Arch will appear when entering that neighborhood and in Charing Cross: "Discover a restaurant in more...
Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Media and Markets
ParaSite Shelter
By cdharris at October 1, 2006 | 11:03 am | 0 Comment
American artist Michael Rakowitz's paraSITE project proposed to take advantage of the exterior ventilation systems on existing architecture to give the homeless a temporary shelter,? and to serve as protest against the government's unwillingness to solve the homeless problem in its more...
Policy for comments….
By cdharris at September 27, 2006 | 6:11 pm | 0 Comment
Just so readers are aware.... I am not accepting unmoderated comments for the blog because of the incredible number of spam "trackbacks" and comment posts that are attempted daily. I have this blog setup to require registration to post comments, and that I must approve the registration and moderate comments. I'm sorry about that, more...
Combating “Phishing” schemes: Carnegie Mellon’s solution
By cdharris at September 11, 2006 | 8:44 pm | 0 Comment
Network World reports that: "A professor and two students at Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab have developed software designed to protect Web users from phishing sites by getting their mobile devices involved. Called the Phoolproof Phishing Prevention system, the program provides strong authentication between the user’s browser and a more...
Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , Technology and Privacy
Conflux 2006 Festival
By cdharris at September 3, 2006 | 12:54 pm | 0 Comment
Conflux, the NYC-based conference and collective on the topic of psychogeography, will take place in NY on September 14-17, more...
Blog , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Technology and Art , Technology and Privacy
Adver-Belt
By cdharris at August 28, 2006 | 2:29 pm | 0 Comment
Since audiences are more and more difficult to reach,? and are making use of technology to avoid advertising exposure,? we can expect to see more creative (and intrusive) forms of advertising.? Advertisers are already using turnstiles,? nightime projections on buildings, tray tables in airplanes, and now,? conveyor belts in grocery stores,? to get their messages out more...
Finding subversives by datamining Amazon’s “wishlists”
By cdharris at August 20, 2006 | 4:24 pm | 0 Comment
Tom Owad tells us "It used to be you had to get a warrant to monitor a person or a group of people. Today, it is increasingly easy to monitor ideas. And then track them back to people. Most of us don't have access to the databases, software, or computing power of the NSA, FBI, and other government agencies. But an individual with access to the internet can more...
Blog , Data Visualization , Datamining , Technology and Privacy
Meet and Greet
By cdharris at August 11, 2006 | 1:03 pm | 0 Comment
Another MIT Media Lab project gives us The IBand -- a wearable computer-in-a-bracelet capable of exchanging contact data and?biographical information during a handshake. Described as a way to "manage your relationships",? the LED display integrated into the device tracks the number of hands shaken, displays personal images, and exchanges and stores contact information.? more...
Blog , Emerging Science and Technology , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Media and Markets , Technology and Art
