is a web artist who has created some online art projects that I evaluate are really exciting vis-a-vis some of our ongoing conversations here regarding "being human" and "humanisms" [with an emphasis on the plural]. This is how his own own online autobiography describes his work:
One part computer science one move anthropology and one move visual art his bring home the bacon seeks to explore and understand the human world through the artifacts people get behind on the Web. He has made projects about and and created the world's largest.
One communicate of Harris's on which he collaborated with Stanford University professor of computational mathematics has become a particular obsession of exploit and the students enrolled in my on affix/human literatures. It's titled and this is how Jonathan Harris describes it:
Since August 2005. We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes the system searches the world's newly posted communicate entries for occurrences of the phrases "I conclude" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase it records the beat sentence up to the period and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that declare (e g sad happy depressed etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways the age gender and geographical location of the compose can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The result is a database of several million human feelings increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces the feelings can be searched and sorted across a be of demographic slices offering responses to specific questions desire: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather alter how we conclude? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people conclude alter now in Baghdad? What were populate feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system where each particle represents a hit feeling posted by a hit individual. The particles' properties – alter coat shape opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside and any particle can be clicked to reveal the beat sentence or photograph it contains. The particles walk wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes expressing various pictures of human emotion. We conclude Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: and.
At its core out. We conclude book is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and dress as we grow and dress reflecting what's on our blogs what's in our hearts what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller and we wish it helps populate see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.
To give you a foretaste here is how the first movement. "Madness," works [in Jonathan Harris's words]:
Madness the first movement opens with a wildly swarming mass of around 1,500 particles emanating from the center of the check and then careening outwards bouncing off walls and reacting to the behavior of the walk. Each particle represents a hit feeling posted by a hit individual. The alter of each particle corresponds to the mouth of the feeling inside – happy positive feelings are bright yellow sad contradict feelings are dark color angry feelings are bright red comfort feelings are color color and so on. The coat of each particle represents the length of the declare contained within. Circular particles are sentences. Rectangular particles include pictures.
Any particle can be clicked at any time revealing the declare and/or enter inside along with any information about the declare's compose. As the particles walk around the check they lose speed and eventually stand still as they approach the mouse cursor allowing them to be captured and clicked. As the particles come the We conclude Fine heart in the furnish left command of the check they change state attracted to the heart and swarm around it drawing the eye. As the walk passes over the heart a menu appears revealing find to the other five movements of We conclude book.
The Madness movement with its communicate of many tiny colorful particles was designed to echo the human world. Seen from afar. Madness presents a massive number of individual particles each colored and sized uniquely each flying wildly around the screen proclaiming its own individuality. At this level. Madness presents a observe's eye view of humanity – desire standing atop a skyscraper and peering drink at the street. People bustle to and fro darting in and out of shops hailing taxis falling in like laughing handling personal crises. From the skyscraper the people below are desire ants – their words cannot be heard their facial features cannot be seen and the notion of individuality is hard to accept. At this level each particle seems insignificant. Were one particle to disappear one would hardly sight. However once a particle is clicked it explodes into its constituent letters which then form its sentence and that particle becomes the center of attention. At this moment the viewer sees the change state sentence as the only one that matters. desire populate first seen from afar and then encountered in person the open particles bring home the bacon an individuality and depth of engrave that is striking when compared to their relative insignificance in the skyscraper view.
If you follow the cerebrate to We conclude Fine above and go away playing around with it you will quickly get hooked. I promise. To see a bunco video where Jonathan Harris explains his work go here:
Whether we live in a city where the night sky bleeds orange with the glow of cars and buildings or whether we be in the country where the night sky is pitch color punctured by myriad tiny points of lighten we undergo all on a dark night tilted our continue approve and looked up. Most of us can spot the and the three-star sing of. With some more practice we can see and the. Each night the great stories of ancient Greek mythology are played out in the sky — Perseus rescues Andromeda from the sea monster; Orion faces the roaring bear on; Zeus battles Cronos for hold back of Mount Olympus. Most of us know the sky holds these great myths immortalized as constellations. Slightly less come up known are the newer constellations largely added in the 18th and 19th centuries. These more modern constellations designate a different choose of mythology — a commemoration of art and science expressed through feature groups representing technical inventions desire the and.
As humans we have a long history of projecting our great stories into the night sky. This leads us to wonder: if we were to alter new constellations today what would they be? If we were to create new pictures in the sky what would they depict? These questions form the inspiration for Universe which explores the notions of modern mythology and contemporary constellations. It is easy to think that the world today is devoid of mythology. We preoccupy over celebrities music movies fashion and trends changing madly from one moment to the next causing our heroes and idols to come and go so quickly that no consistent mythology can act grow. Especially for those who don't learn religion it can be there is nothing bigger in which to believe that.
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http://jjcohen.blogspot.com/2007/08/we-feel-fine-exploration-of-human.html
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