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 […]
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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 […]
Here are some shots from the recently released Art and the Internet (Black Dog Publishing, London) with contributions from Joanne McNeil, Domenico Quaranta, and Nick Lambert. The book is a welcome update to writing on the subject and contains many well known works by artists I’ve admired for years. Nice to be included. Trust (Evidence […]
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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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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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March 6-April 8, 2014 Opening Receptions: Legion Arts – March 6, 5-7 PM 1103 3rd St. SE, Cedar Rapids Public Space One – March 7, 6-8 PM 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City see websites for gallery hours www.legionarts.org www.publicspaceone.com Exhibiting Artists – Legion Arts Brandon Bauer (United States), Mark Cooley (United States), Priti Cox […]
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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