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Three Turk Dreams [2010]

20 Dec 2010 | no comments »

Three text/software pieces I made in an electronic writing course taught by Judd Morrissey. These three pieces were made with Javascript & texts gathered from Amazon Mechanical Turk as an attempt to probe, tease, analyze, and marvel at its crowdsourced subconscious.

Dream 1 — The dreams of Mechanical Turk workers are rewoven into an eternal amber tangle, slipping in and out of intelligibility.

Dream 2 — Feel around on your keyboard and try to reveal the narration of a dream, clumsily remembered and slowly put to type.

Dream 3 — The Mechanical Turk workers are asked to analyze their own generated text as though they were dreams. This is meant to be the video component of a video/print installation, along with the printed text of dreams described by Mechanical Turk workers.

I Pretended [2010]

18 Feb 2010 | no comments »

Twitter search results for “I pretended” are reprocessed and mined for google image search terms, the results of which are composited into these images (with their reprocessed text as captions).

http://ipretended.tumblr.com/

Wikipedia vs. Predator [2009]

25 Aug 2009 | no comments »

Wikipedia vs. Predator

Two Youtube Videos and a Motherfucking Crossfader [2009]

01 Aug 2009 | no comments »

Two Youtube Videos and a Motherfucking Crossfader

Magic Matrix Mixer Mountain [2009]

06 Jun 2009 | no comments »

Collaborative performance/installation with Mark Beasley, jonCates, Alex Inglizian, Tamas Kemenczy, Nicholas O’Brien, Jon Satrom and me, hosted & supported by Lampo in June 2009.

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Kitten Glitches [2009]

01 Jan 2009 | no comments »

Images posted to Flickr & tagged ‘kittens’ are processed by a pseudorandom automatic databending script and posted to this tumblr blog.

http://kittenglitches.tumblr.com/

Source code (python)

I Am Busy Doing Research [2009]

01 Jan 2009 | no comments »

Twitter search results for “I am researching” are reprocessed and mined for google image search terms, the results of which are composited into these images (with their reprocessed text as captions).

http://iambusydoingresearch.tumblr.com/

OH MY GOD! YOUR EYES [2009]

01 Jan 2009 | no comments »

A twitter search for descriptions of eyes is pushed through google image search, the results of which are composited with textual descriptions in this tumblr feed. http://ohmygodyoureyes.tumblr.com/

The Same Eagle Is in All These Pictures [2009]

01 Jan 2009 | no comments »

Google image searches for a few terms relating to positively-valued traits of American landscapes are composited with the same eagle. Shown in video format at The Nightingale Theatre (Chicago IL) in the Expressive Media Express screening in October 2009.

I Thought I Had a Virus [2009]

01 Jan 2009 | no comments »

Part of a series of microblog artware mashups, combines a twitter search with google image search to create variations on this comic strip, all with the same punchline.