I admire the great photographic series by Alexey Titarenko using long exposure shots to describe the masses moving through St. Petersburg Russia. The crowd appears to become a machine in motion. This is a visual explanation of some of the world that produces pure residual data.
DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller’s next large scale multimedia performance work will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller’s field […]
I just came across the Citysense application for Blackberry which allows participating users to monitor active areas of the city (only San Francisco at this time) through real time network monitoring. Citysense is powered by Sense Networks application over the GSM networks. There also appears to allow personalization of the system to attribute […]
There was a very interesting article in the Sunday New York times concerning data collecting billboards currently placed around the city. A company named TruMedia (CEOed by George Murphy previously a marketing Exec at Daimler-Chrysler) use facial recognition techniques to tune the advertisements for the most effective means to grab the attention of their demographic groups.