About
Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: surveillance
Half a shade off from the reality we are living already: an interview with Jacob Garbe of ISA
[intro]Jacob Garbe is a Bay Area artist, designer, and MFA student at UC Santa Cruz. His latest ARG-like creation, XMPLAR, involves an iOS and Android app, a frighteningly believable fictional corporation (of which Jacob is apparently an employee), a series … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged arg, artificial intelligence, jacob garbe, michael mateas, noah wardrip-fruin, surveillance, ucsc
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Using location data to predict where people will be, when they will be there, and who they will be there with
Never mind the increasingly ubiquitous surveillance-by-smartphone of where people are. Next up is keeping track of where they will be. University of Illinois researchers Long Vu, Quang Do, and Klara Nahrstedt have prototyped a system that analyzes the movements of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged jyotish, long vu, mobile media, prediction, surveillance
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Finding Subversives With Amazon Wishlists
It used to be you had to get a warrant to monitor a person or a group of people. Today, it is increasingly easy to monitor ideas. And then track them back to people. Most of us don’t have access … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged data mining, maps, politics, surveillance
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