“Data and Site: Visualizing Indexicality” lecture @ Florida State

I am giving a lecture on my research tomorrow at a Florida State Department of Geography colloquium. I’ll be addressing artistic and cultural works that make use of data visualization and various forms of mapping to critique or engage issues surrounding data privacy, militarism, and surveillance. I will be giving a preview of a new […]

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Term vs. Term for Digital Public Library of America hackathon

I made a small app to compare the number of search results for two phrases from the Digital Public Library of America for a hackathon / workshop here at Florida State next week. http://owenmundy.com/work/term-vs-term Digital Humanities Hackathon II – Digital Public Library of America Monday, April 21, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Strozier Library, Scholars Commons Instructional Classroom […]

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“The Earth Observation Guide” – Post Media Lab notes

I’m back from Lüneberg, Germany and already missing the simplicity of traveling by train as well as the pleasure of fine wurst. However I had an engaging few days at the Post Media Lab’s Taking Care of Things!. The event began with a keynote by Kelly Dobson from RISD, followed by a tour of Stadtarchive […]

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Taking Care of Things! Archives, Life-Cycles, Care, Lüneberg, Germany

Excited to be heading to Lüneberg, Germany, tomorrow for this conference organized jointly by Habits of Living (Brown University, CIS Bangalore) and the Post-Media Lab in conjunction with Stadtarchiv Lüneburg. January 15-18 Taking Care of Things! Archives – Life-Cycles – Care organized by Post-Media Lab/CDC and Habits of Living in cooperation with the Stadtarchiv Lüneburg […]

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No-one Ever Cried At A Website (Speed Show) Friday, November 22

No-one Ever Cried At A Website (Speed Show) November 22, 5:00–6:30 pm EST, Computer training room, Facility for Arts Research, 3216 Sessions Road, Tallahassee FL With FSU students: Monique Boileau, Alexis Cooper, Jonathan Davito, Danielle English, Justin Greenstein, Antoinette Janus, Scotty Johnson, Melissa Lidsky, Michelle Medrano, Denise Morrow, Lena Weissbrot, Meghan “Red” Yancey. Curated by: […]

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After Douglas Davis – The World’s First Collaborative Sentence

README for After Douglas Davis ============================== Statement ————– The World’s First Collaborative Sentence was created by Douglas Davis in 1994 and donated to the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1995. Much like today’s blog environments and methods for crowdsourcing knowledge, it allowed users to contribute practically any text or markup to a never-ending sentence […]

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CYBER IN SECURITIES, Pepco Edison Place Gallery, Washington, DC

clockwise l to r: Ricarada McDonald and Donna Szoke, and all watched over by machines of loving grace; Birgit Bachler, Walter Langelaar, Owen Mundy, and Tim Schwartz, Commodify.us; Lexie Mountain, Ball Hard; Whitefeather, Parent Folder CYBER IN SECURITIES Dates: August 30 – September 27, 2013 Location: Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 702 8th Street, NW, Washington, […]

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Give Me My Data visualizations / tutorials

I received two separate emails recently sharing images and sample code for visualization projects produced with the help of Give Me My Data. I’m happy to share them both here: Alex Hornbake posted a visualization mapping Facebook friend locations and connections in D3. You can view it here and there’s a Gist with all the […]

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