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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
Giant Amoebas Ooze Through Texas
This is both fascinating and terrifying news: an organism that can break down into self-sufficient parts only to re-constitute itself as a massive Blob-like mega-entity. A prime candidate, evolution-wise, to usurp us genetically-varied individualists: Scientists say the discovery is much … Continue reading
Translating Media
TRANSLATING MEDIA is a Graduate Student Conference co-hosted by the Department of Critical Studies and the Media Arts and Practice PhD (iMAP) Program at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. The event is co-sponsored by the USC … Continue reading
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Tagged conferences, david thorne, julia meltzer, translating media, usc
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David Lynch on iPhone
…’nuff said.
Deadmau5 iPhone app
I think the albums-as-applications concept will probably go a lot further than just a simple track-mixing app like this one by electronica artist Deadmau5, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. Deadmau5’s iPhone app ($3 on iTunes) … Continue reading
Book Autopsies
Brian Dettmer creates these fascinating sculptures by carving into books and revealing the illustrations within. A collection of photographs of Brian’s works can be viewed at Centripetal Notion. H/T Cynthia P.
Pachube
I’ve been researching network-connected buildings and data services for my location-based storytelling project. Along the way, I discovered Pachube, a web service that enables the tagging, linking and sharing of sensor data from real-world objects and environments: The key aim … Continue reading
Sekai Camera: Tagging Physical Space
Tonchidot defines their amazing Sekai Camera–in Japanese, World Camera– as a "social tagging device" for the iPhone. It combines most technologies in the iPhone 3G, from the camera and the GPS to the internet connectivity and its microphone. When you … Continue reading
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Tagged gps, iphone, public space, sekai camera, space, tagging
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Ladies’ Interpretations of the Silurian
The Institute for Figuring’s Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, an international crochet-art collaboration, is now on exhibit at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica: The IFF Crochet Coral Reef is a collective and collaborative enterprise. The reef project was created by … Continue reading
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Tagged christine wertheim, collaboration, crochet, institute for figuring, margaret wertheim, track 16
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Add-Art: Graffiti in Reverse
Add-Art is a Firefox extension that replaces web advertisements with curated art images: Of the 100+ add-ons available for Firefox, “adblockers” are the most popular. The most current, Adblock Plus, has over 18 million downloads (as of May 2008) since … Continue reading
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Tagged adblockers, advertising, firefox, graffiti
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