Memo (random)

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

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

Mar 14, 2017

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

noa

Mar 9, 2017

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 Flint and massive…

Genevieve Hoffman

Dec 1, 2016

Cultural Data Collection in Appalachia

One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1916, English folklorist Cecil Sharp and assistant Maud Karpeles traveled through Appalachia…

A'yen Tran

Nov 18, 2016

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Jer Thorp

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…

Elephants Count: Designing The Elephant Atlas

The Elephant in the Room

Jer Thorp

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…

Relativity’s Landscape

visualizing the impact of Einstein’s General Relativity theory

Jer Thorp

Jul 27, 2015

A Sort of Joy

Performing MoMA’s 120,000 object collections database

Jer Thorp

May 13, 2015

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

Data (v.)

Let’s turn data into a verb. I data you, you data me. They data us, we data them.

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Memo (random)

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

The Heart Deconstructed

To the machine

The Calls Left Unanswered

Cultural Data Collection in Appalachia

Turning Data Around

Elephants Count: Designing The Elephant Atlas

The Elephant in the Room

Open for who?

Relativity’s Landscape

visualizing the impact of Einstein’s General Relativity theory

A Sort of Joy

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

Data (v.)

Let’s turn data into a verb. I data you, you data me. They data us, we data them.