Critical Networked Experience: Challenge How We Use and Interact With Networks and Data
Date: June 13, 2023 5-6pm
Format: Hybrid (In-person with online access)
Tags: #critical • #networks • #design • #interaction
I will discuss my projects and work in the theme of “Critical Networked Experience” that challenge and subvert accepted notions of network interaction and socialization. Some projects I will discuss include “BumpList”, an email community for the determined, “Weapon of Protest”, a modified game controller that protests gun violence in the US, “To Protect and Server” a critical modification of Google’s ReCaptcha software to emphasis police brutality and social justice, “Killer Route” a GPS navigation system that integrates live crime data, “Human Error” a series of works that emphasize humanity’s inability to understand technical interfaces, “ContactRot” an iPhone app that challenges our reliance on the cloud, “Alerting Infrastructure!”, a website hit counter that destroys a building, "WordPlay" a project that allows the public to remix famous quotes and facts in public space, and he will demo "Rhetoricall", an open source SMS visualization tool he created for creating dialogues in public spaces.