Monthly Archive for May, 2010
The ITP Spring Show is happening this Sunday and Monday, May 9-10. Two of my interactive telephony projects will be presented at the show, Potato Sack Race and Chat Roulette 1988 (made with Meredith Hasson).
ITP Spring Show 2010
May 9 2-6pm and May 10 5-9pm
@ 721 Broadway, 4th Fl
Scrape is an exploration of information privacy focusing on the graphical data that is left behind on a computer.
All computers store visual data. A computer’s graphics card is recording a history of all recent activity on the machine. The core of Scrape is a custom software application that retrieves the data from a computer graphics card, interprets it, and represents it visually. This creates a beautiful, abstract mosaic of sometimes chaotic and sometimes recognizable tiles of information.
The software is used in the three projects that make up Scrape: an interactive installation uncovering traces left behind when using a public computer, an online social network rethinking the concept of constant status updates, and an exhibit of prints using information as a drawing medium.
On one hand, Scrape is a reminder of the amount of trust we put into computers. On the other, the project exposes the tell-all attitude characterizing our online social interaction. Scrape explores these themes through a re-interpretation of data, using information as a medium for creating beautiful visual compositions.
I will be presenting my thesis project, Scrape, on Friday May 7 at 1:40pm. The graduating class at ITP will be presenting their theses all week. For more information, see itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2010.
Two of the Scrape modules, the interactive installation and the exhibit of large format prints, will be on display throughout the week at ITP.
