Memo (random)

Missives from the many-folded boundaries between data, art and culture.

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Mar 14, 2017

The Heart Deconstructed

A look at how We Were Strangers Once Too went from concept to reality

noa in Memo (random)

Mar 9, 2017

To the machine

In 1770 Wolfgang von Kempelen completed a revolutionary automaton called the Mechanical Turk. It was the first robotic contraption…

Genevieve Hoffman in Memo (random)

Dec 1, 2016

The Calls Left Unanswered

Flint is a small city with a big reputation. In the 1960s, it was known for cars — GM headquartered its company in…

A'yen Tran in Memo (random)

Nov 18, 2016

Cultural Data Collection in Appalachia

One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1916, English folklorist Cecil Sharp and assistant…

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Jer Thorp in Memo (random)

Nov 18, 2016

Turning Data Around

On a September morning in 2013, the students at Hunter College High School filed past security and into the hallways, to…

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Jane Friedhoff in Memo (random)

Oct 19, 2016

Elephants Count: Designing The Elephant Atlas

The Elephant in the Room

Jer Thorp in Memo (random)

Oct 5, 2016

Open for who?

I bracketed September by attending two open data conferences: one for scientists working with satellites, and one for librarians and…

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The O.C.R. in Memo (random)

Sep 3, 2015

Relativity’s Landscape

visualizing the impact of Einstein’s General Relativity theory

Jer Thorp in Memo (random)

Jul 27, 2015

A Sort of Joy

Performing MoMA’s 120,000 object collections database

Jer Thorp in Memo (random)

May 13, 2015

This is what it is like to be charged by a hippopotamus.

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