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Exhibition and Talks in Dublin Ireland

SECRET at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

This week I’m in Dublin, Ireland for the opening of SECRET, an exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin. SECRET, which is curated by Julian Oliver, Tad Hirsch, Marie Redmond, and Ian Brunswick, is an international exhibition and events program that “explores the social and technological aspects of secrecy, particularly the future of surveillance, espionage, and privacy.” The exhibition opens on Thursday, August 6 at 18:00 with a launch party. On Friday at 1pm I’ll speak about my work in the gallery.

Before SECRET opens, I’ll give an extended artist’s talk for the Dublin Art and Technology Association (D.A.T.A). This talk is on Wednesday, August 5 from 7-9p at Dunlop Oriel House at the corner of Fenian St. & Westland Row. Thanks to Rachel O’Dwyer for hosting this.

posted on 08/04/2015 | tagged: shows, talks

Computers Watching Movies at Incubarte 7 in Spain

Computers Watching Movies at Incubarte 7 in Valencia, Spain

Running from 18-21 June, Computers Watching Movies will be part of the video art program at Incubarte 7, an International Art Festival in Valencia, Spain. The program will exhibit at MuVIM, the Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i la Modernitat. After the festival finishes, the works will stay on view throughout the month of July. Incubarte 7 is curated by Jorge Montalvo, Lourdes Casany, Emanuela Loprieno, Cristina Ghetti, Toni Cosin, Kasia Nagorska, and Javier Marisco.

posted on 06/14/2015 | tagged: shows

Recent Interviews on South Korean Broadcast Media

Screenshot of interview with South Korea’s EBS program G News

In the last couple weeks, I’ve done interviews with two media outlets in South Korea. The first was a television interview on EBS’ nightly program G News (roughly the equivalent of the USA’s News Hour on PBS). You can watch the four minute segment on EBS’ website. The second was a radio interview on BEFM, an English language station in Busan (90.5 FM), for a program called Inside Out.

Both interviews were about Facebook Demetricator, how metrics drive behavior, and other questions around Facebook.

posted on 06/13/2015 | tagged: press

ScareMail in Thinking Through Digital Media

Thinking Through Digital Media by Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmerman

My work ScareMail was written about in the recent book Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places. The book, by Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmerman and published by Palgrave MacMillan, “…offers a means of conceptualizing digital media by looking at projects that think through digital media, migrating between documentary, experimental, narrative, animation, video game, and live performance.” ScareMail is featured in the chapter on micropublics:

ScareMail asks us to question the normalization of compromised privacy as a part of everyday life in the context of a country whose international clout has been historically anchored to its democratic principles. It also reflects upon racial profiling within automated national-security protocols. The user’s comfort with having NSA keywords in private e-mails is contingent upon knowledge of their place within racial-profiling schemes.

I appreciate the authors’ highlighting of “comfort” as a component of the choice to use or not use ScareMail. Unquestionably this choice has different consequences for different people depending on their race.

Previously I worked with Dale Hudson when he and Claudia Pederson curated Viral Dissonance at Ithaca College last year.

posted on 06/10/2015 | tagged: books, new media, reviews

Artist Talk and Exhibition at Athens Digital Arts Festival

Public Space_s, this year’s theme at the Athens Digital Arts Festival

My work ScareMail will be on exhibit at the Athens Digital Arts Festival from May 21-24. Held in the center of Athens, Greece at the Diplareios School, the Festival’s theme is Public Space_s, highlighting …

the various aspects of “public” both in the digital and physical space. In our times, the notion of public space appears to be one of the most contradictory concepts while the rise of network and communication technologies has changed our experience of public space. Public space is not only characterised by physical space and architecture but also by networks and knowledge distribution. In this framework, we seek to redefine the multiple interconnected spaces within which we act and raise new questions in relation to the information age.

In addition to the exhibition I’ll be giving an invited artist talk on the evening of May 22. The festival program is directed by Katerina Gkoutziouli and the Webart section is curated by Foteini Vergidou.

posted on 05/19/2015 | tagged: shows

ScareMail in WRO Media Art Biennale

ScareMail at 2015 WRO Media Art Biennale

Opening on 13 May, ScareMail will be part of the 2015 WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. Running through 17 May at venues throughout Wroclaw, the Biennale…

…is the major forum for new media art in Poland, and one of the leading international art events in Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues in art, technology and society.

I’m happy to be a part of this event directed by Piotr Krajewski.

posted on 05/13/2015 | tagged: shows

Computers Watching Movies Reviewed in Neural

Been meaning to mention that in Neural #48, my work Computers Watching Movies is reviewed by Aurelio Cianciotta. In the review, titled Computers Watching Movies, films seen from digital entities, Cianciotta writes:

Questioning differences with us as humans driven by narrative, personal history and different pattern recognition abilities, the work also describes an uneasy scene: a movie purposely constructed to capture the imagination of a human audience being viewed by a silent other. Emotion, symbolism, metaphors and random associations are alien to the machine, which analyses on its own terms.

You can read the entire review online, or pickup a paper copy of issue #48. Neural is a magazine/journal from Italy that has focused on new media art, electronic music, and hacktivism since the ’90s. It is published in English and Italian and edited by Alessandro Ludovico.

posted on 05/12/2015 | tagged: reviews

Upcoming Artist Talk at NCSA

I'll be giving an artist's talk at NCSA on 29 Apr

I’ll be giving an artist talk at NCSA on 29 Apr at 12pm

On Wednesday, April 29, I’m giving an artist talk at NCSA on the UIUC campus. NCSA, also known as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, is a hub on campus for visualization, big data, interdisciplinary research, and supercomputing resources. My talk, titled “What Does Software Want? Recent Artistic Projects and Research,” will be in room 1040 from 12-1pm. NCSA is located at 1205 W. Clark St in Urbana.

posted on 04/28/2015 | tagged: talks

Presenting at Theorizing the Web 2015

I’ll be presenting about ScareMail at Theorizing the Web 2015 in NYC

This week I’m off to NYC for Theorizing the Web 2015. I’ll be talking about ScareMail in a presentation titled “Privacy Through Visibility: Disrupting NSA Surveillance With Algorithmically Generated ‘Scary’ Stories.” Theorizing the Web is an interdisciplinary annual conference that “brings together scholars, journalists, activists, and commentators to ask big questions about the interrelationships between the Web and society.” It’s a great group of people, and I’m looking forward to attending for the second year in a row. The panel I’m on is titled “Watched Out” and is being held at 2pm in Studio A on 17 April.

posted on 04/12/2015 | tagged: talks

Computers Watching Movies at Media Art Futures Festival

Computers Watching Movies at Media Art Future Festival in Murcia, Spain

Computers Watching Movies will be part of this year’s Media Art Futures Festival in Murcia, Spain. The invitation comes from curator Pau Waelder, who has placed the work within the Data Cinema program. This program will be on view five different nights during the two week festival running from 15-30 April (see the Program for precise dates). The viewings will take place at the Filmoteca Regional.

posted on 04/07/2015 | tagged: shows

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