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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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Author Archives: Jeff Watson
tldr – visualizing large-scale discussions
tldr is an application for navigating through large-scale online discussions. The application visualizes structures and patterns within ongoing conversations to let the user browse to content of most interest. In addition to visual overviews, it also incorporates features such as … Continue reading
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Tagged reddit, visualization
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Special Notice: Update Your Feeds
For anyone who’s watching this space via RSS/Atom: I’ve changed how things work around here a little bit, and will be using WordPress to host a lot of material beyond the typical blog fare. If you’d like to receive all … Continue reading
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Tagged about, announcements, blogging, information, remotedevice, wordpress
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Cybraphon
Junkshop/steampunk social-network-enabled automatic music machine: Cybraphon consists of a number of instruments, antique machinery, and found objects from junk shops operated by over 60 robotic components, all housed in a modified wardrobe. Its emotions are shown on a 100 year … Continue reading
Futures Thinking
UK social software consultant and writer Suw Charman-Anderson, working for the Carnegie Trust UK, has been conducting some forecasting and scenario-making research concerning the future of social technology and the Internet. Her enormous mindmap of keywords and phrases associated with … Continue reading
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Tagged carnegie trust uk, future, mindmaps, social media, suw charman-anderson
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Blue/Green
This optical illusion is hard to believe…but the Photoshop test bears it out. You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. At first I thought Richard was … Continue reading
Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous
Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium, which … Continue reading
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Tagged bas jan ader, california, conceptual art, holland, lost at sea, performance art, sailing, shipwrecks
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The Crypt of Civilization
The Crypt of Civilization is an airtight chamber at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta containing books, records, consumer goods and other artifacts. It is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 C.E.. On May 25, 1940, Jacobs and Peters sealed … Continue reading
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Tagged crypts, oglethorpe university, posterity, time capsules, time travel
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Today I Die
Today I Die is another poetic text-and-animation game from Daniel Benmergui.
Tenori-on
Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Music and Human Interface Group, Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology. It consists of a screen, held in the hands, of … Continue reading
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Tagged little boots, monome, music, music and human interface group, sequencers, tenori-on, toshio iwai, yamaha, yu nishibori
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Khronos Projector
From Henri Bergson’s The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics: …let us imagine an infinitely small piece of elastic, contracted, if that were possible, to a mathematical point. Let us draw it out gradually in such a way as to … Continue reading
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Tagged alvaro cassinelli, henri bergson, khronos projector, processing, space, time
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