This is the first post in a long time. Over the next two months I will add one every day while I’m working on a new stage of an ongoing project I began in Berlin in 2010. I haven’t posted like this in a while. I find it extremely helpful to share and collect research, […]
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I Know Where Your Cat Lives will be featured at the new exhibition, Big Bang Data, opening today at Somerset House in London. This is a traveling exhibition curated by Olga Subirós and José Luis de Vicente. Emails, selfies, shopping transactions, Google searches, dating profiles: every day we’re producing data in huge quantities. Our online […]
I’m enjoying reading this new book which discusses three of my works (Give Me My Data, Camp La Jolla Military Park, and Keyword Intervention): Thinking Through Digital Media:Transnational Environments and Locative Places by Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Give Me My Data offers users a tool to see, if not claim, […]
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This week I’m presenting at the Creativity and Technology Symposium hosted by the North Carolina State University Libraries. Using our feline friends as a theme, we will explore a variety of topics that relate to the ever-expanding and complex work of libraries and academic institutions including: GIS-data enabled location tracking and the implications for privacy rights; […]
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Photos from the Story-re-telling exhibition at the National Audiovisual Institute (NInA), Warsaw, Poland (September 25–October 18, 2015) curated by Anna Desponds. “I know where your cat lives” proclaims artist and programmer Owen Mundy. And indeed – the website created by him can not only recognize pictures of cats from the web, but also precisely pinpoint […]
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This month found me at the excellent Beautiful Data II workshop at the MetaLab at Harvard University sponsored by the Getty Foundation. Participants worked together in the Carpenter Center and Harvard Art Museum under the theme “Telling Stories About Art with Open Collections.” There were presentations by known visualization and museums experts, breakout sessions exploring […]
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I Know Where Your Cat Lives at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. Opening of the exhibition ‘Art In The Age Of…Planetary Computation’, 21 May 2015. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn Opening of the exhibition ‘Art In The Age Of…Planetary Computation’, 21 May 2015. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn Art In The Age Of… Planetary Computation […]
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I’m doing a workshop / lecture as part of the ongoing Digital Scholars digital humanities discussion group here at Florida State University. Workshop is free and open to the public. Wednesday, March 25, 2:00-3:30 pm Fine Arts Building (FAB) 320A [530 W. Call St. map] “I Know Where Your Cat Lives”: The Process of Mapping Big Data […]
It has been an intense couple weeks since my last post. It turns out the internet loves cats even more than data, maps, and politics. So here is an update on many things “cat”… Update on the project I Know Where Your Cat Lives has received an overwhelmingly positive response from international press. Besides photos […]
Read More… from “Owen Mundy just ruined the Internet” and the last days for the kickstarter
I just launched a new ongoing project this week. Here’s the text, a video and some screenshots. I’ll post more about how I made it soon. Welcome to the today’s internet—you can buy anything, every website is tracking your every move, and anywhere you look you find videos and images of cats. Currently, there are […]
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