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Stasi / Facebook / Big Data DAAD Day 3 – MfS Department M

Posted on May 3, 2017 (September 19, 2023)

The Ministry for State Security’s Department M was tasked with “postal control”, or the inspection of domestic and international letters and packages. They conducted their work thanks to cooperation with Deutsche Post which, as another state institution concerned with “security of the state,” was subject to the same politics and power infrastructure of the single […]

Stasi / Facebook / Big Data DAAD Day 2 – The Stasi’s automatic letter opener invention

Posted on May 2, 2017 (May 8, 2017)

The former East Germany’s Ministry for State Security (more popularly referred to as the MfS or “Stasi”) is widely known for the inventive and clandestine gadgets that appear in films like Das Leben der Anderen (English: The Lives of Others) or on exhibit at the Stasi Museum in Berlin. Some of my favorites from the […]

Stasi / Facebook / Big Data DAAD Day 1 – Willkommen in Deutschland

Posted on May 1, 2017 (May 12, 2017)

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, […]

Big Bang Data at Somerset House in London, other exhibitions and interviews, and 5 million + cats!

Posted on December 2, 2015 (January 1, 2016)

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 […]

Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places

Posted on November 30, 2015

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, […]

Creativity and Technology Symposium (C.A.T.S.) at NCSU

Posted on October 25, 2015 (November 29, 2015)

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; […]

Story-re-telling exhibition, National Audiovisual Institute (NInA), Warsaw, Poland

Posted on October 21, 2015 (October 21, 2015)

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 […]

Beautiful Data II @ Metalab at Harvard University

Posted on August 4, 2015 (August 5, 2015)

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 […]

Art In The Age Of… Planetary Computation, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

Posted on May 12, 2015 (August 5, 2015)

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 […]

Upcoming workshop at FSU, “I Know Where Your Cat Lives”: The Process of Mapping Big Data for Inconspicuous Trends

Posted on March 16, 2015 (November 30, 2015)

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 […]

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