Dissing Information
* an edited version of this review was written for and published in Rhizome. “Social Networking, we’ve all heard of it, we all hate it… but now you can let your contacts work for you!” Generative Social Networking (GSN®) is a brand developed by artists Christian Croft and Andrew Schneider. It is a software and … Continue reading Generative Social Networking
Regine from We-Make-Money-Not-Art interviewed me for her new-media blog/magazine. We talked about most of what I’m working on and have been working on in the past year or so… If you’re interested in what I do you might find this interesting. Go Make Money Not Art Continue reading Interviewed on We-Make-Money-Not-Art
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.
Just published an interview with Offf festival’s chief curator, Hector Ayuso. In the changing scene of new-media design, the Barcelona born OFFF festival has always presented the voice of the creative cutting edge. Pixelsurgeon interviews Hector Ayuso, OFFF s chief curator towards the coming up OFFF MX 2006 (March 2-4). Check the rest of the … Continue reading OFFF Interview
