A Short Pick at the Israeli Graphic Design Scene
A draft for a column on Israeli design for ‘Computer Arts’ magazine. Continue reading “A Short Pick at the Israeli Graphic Design Scene”
Author: Mushon
Border Conflict presentation TLV 2006
A presentation of works from the past year as a Part of the Upgrade Tel-Aviv. Here’s a link to the presentation file Saturday, 20.5.06, 19:00 Squat Ben Atar, Ben Atar 2, Florentin, Tel Aviv Free Entrance Mushon Zer Aviv Borders Conflict Next Upgrade evening will deal with concepts of geographical and cultural borders … Continue reading Border Conflict presentation TLV 2006
A violent night in Harlem
I was attacked by 3 men, really!, originally uploaded by mushon. last night when I was getting off the bus, returning from our traditional Friday movie night at Ned’s in Williamsburg, I was attacked on the street. As I was walking the very short walk from the bus station to the entrance of my home, … Continue reading A violent night in Harlem
Collabrowsres – A space for ShiftSpace
Collabrowsers is a flash application using Flash Communication Server to allow for a realtime chat and realtime data transfer of the current browsed url. It is using ShiftSpace to be inserted as a transparent layer above any website. Data passed through ShiftSpace to the Flash movie and through it to the FlashCom allows the users … Continue reading Collabrowsres – A space for ShiftSpace
My People, Let Pharaoh Go!
Thoughts about opt-in surveillance technologies
Unforgettable Face
I just lately came across this cool website called Riya. Riya is an image search engine that doesn’t only search the data associated with the image, but actually searches the image content itself. Riya recognizes text in the images and through it’s OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and human faces through it’s impressive face recognition technology. You can train Riya to know that a specific face belongs to a specific name. While image storage and managing services such as Flickr require the user to tag the images with metadata, Riya is smart, it can learn, and it can put a name to a face.
Downhill
This is a paper I wrote for an assignment in the first semester (before I set up the blog). The assignment was to define life in about 10 years from now, at first I thought it was a little childish and geeky but then I started, and quite enjoyed it, hope you do too. Continue reading “Downhill”
The Big Game of Identity Correction
Presentation for the Big Games class on the Yes Men’s Identity Correction as a big game. Continue reading “The Big Game of Identity Correction”
Control in Public Space
The following is an essay dealing with public space and public art in physical space and online. It can also serve as a cultural background to the ShiftSpace project I’m working on with Dan Phiffer.
Surveillance & Privacy in art
For my ‘current events’ in privacy & information I have decided to give some examples of new-media artworks / experiments that refer to the subject. This is a choice of some project which will each give its own perspective and hopefully be informative as a ‘what’s being done in the field’ kind of overview. This is of-course a very limited overview, but hopefully you’ll find it useful and inspiring. Continue reading “Surveillance & Privacy in art”
An Emergent Public Artwork in 116th Street
About two months ago, Galia and I were walking down 116th Street in Harlem. Being terribly late for our meeting with Dan and Ellie, we tried to walk as fast as we could. As we were walking by a little neighborhood Basketball court, something there made us stop. In the middle of the court the Basketball hoop was lying, it’s base torn off and it’s board flat facing the ground. Something about this image was so disturbing for us that we couldn’t just walk by and ignore it.
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