I just learned the Give Me My Data 2.0 proposal I put together with Dr. Phil Steinberg has advanced to the second stage of 2011 Rhizome Commission voting. Give Me My Data 2.0 is an open source web application that exports your user data from any crowdsourcing website in multiple, reusable formats. I created Give […]
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I’ve just returned from Linz, Austria, where I attended the art and technology festival/conference/exhibition called Art Meets Radical Openness (LiWoLi 2011). It is put on and hosted by Ushi Reiter and others of servus.at, and Martin Kaltenbrunner (creator of Reactable) and others at the Kunst Universität Linz. While I was here I met a lot […]
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A two-day workshop, with both technical hands-on and idea-driven components. Learn to scrape data and reuse public and private information by writing custom code and using the Facebook API. Additionally, we’ll converse and conceptualize ideas to reclaim our data literally and also imagine what is possible with our data once it is ours! Here are […]
This weekend I am presenting a lecture about GIve Me My Data and conducting a two-day data-scraping workshop at Art Meets Radical Openness in Linz, Austria. Here are the details. The Self-Indulgence of Closed Systems May 13, 18:45 – 19:15 Part artist lecture, part historical context, Owen Mundy will discuss his Give Me My Data […]
This week I am installing an ambitious new project in a quaint and friendly space called bauer&ewald located in Kreuzberg / Neuköln (Berlin) opening on May 7 until the end of June. There will be a party on the evening of the opening day. Please come if you are in town. You can see a […]
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How to back up your Facebook dataBy Rosa Golijan “There are plenty of reasons to back up your Facebook data — maybe you want to archive, reuse, or save it — and it turns out that there’s a simple way to do so. In fact, a few clicks and an app called Give Me My […]
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A study for an upcoming installation in Berlin. […]
I am giving a presentation about my work and Give Me My Data at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (BTK) as part of the Drop Shadow Talk series there curated by Johannes P Osterhoff. April 28, 19:00–21:00 Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule BTK Bernburger Straße 24–25 D-10963 Berlin Update: Poster from talk […]
Art Meets Radical Openness (LiWoLi 2011) Date: 12th – 14th May 2011 Location: Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 8, 4020 Linz Observing, comparing, reflecting, imitating, testing, combining LiWoLi is an open lab and meeting spot for artists, developers and educators using and creating FLOSS (free/libre open source software) and Open Hardware in the artistic and cultural context. […]
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A study for an upcoming installation in Berlin. […]