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Project Update week 11

Posted on April 14, 2011 by jack

Looking ahead, this week I’ve been focusing on the final installation of the piece. After the feedback that I got from the class review last week, people seemed to be in consensus that the current location for the piece in … Continue reading →

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Final Project progress update – Illuminated Manuscripts

Posted on April 13, 2011 by jack

For the final project I am collaborating with Yonatan. So far, Yoni has been focusing on the language-processing and text-generation aspect of the project, and I have been focusing on the physical installation and Optical Character Recognition elements. I have … Continue reading →

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I recommend you stop recommending me things

Posted on April 1, 2011 by jack

Coincidentally I decided to reactivate my Netflix account over te weekend. Upon doing so, I was asked to describe how often I watched what type of movie genres. I was then introduced to a page full of recommended movies and … Continue reading →

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Project development update

Posted on March 31, 2011 by jack

This past week I’ve been mostly trying to get the audio aspect of my project working. I exported some audio tracks from garage band that have an interesting ominous, mysterious, alien sound that I am looking for, and my intention … Continue reading →

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Alpha, Epsilon, and the Dangling Node

Posted on March 25, 2011 by jack

So I stayed up quite late last night along with Alex Koz and Maria Rabinovich trying to full understand the details of the pageranking algorithm. Unfortunately, I found it too dense and could not fully grasp the inner-workings of the … Continue reading →

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Project Development Studio – Final Expectations

Posted on March 24, 2011 by jack

For my project development studio final I would like to have a finished work, ready for installation in a gallery-type setting. What still needs to be done between now and the final: incorporate responsive audio this includes composing a piece … Continue reading →

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Obsidian Project Development – Week 7

Posted on March 21, 2011 by jack

In continuing variations on the stereogram immagery, I created a few more depth maps. One, is of a complex multi-sided 3D shape spinning around quickly (icocohedron, I think?). This proved to be very difficult to see, i think because the shape is … Continue reading →

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The Dreaded Jaron Lanier

Posted on March 11, 2011 by jack

We should not fear the rise of information technology in our lives. The anonymity of the web gives us unique affordance that are rather valuable. For instance, take into consideration the recent rise of Wikileaks on the world stage. Anonymity … Continue reading →

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misconnections: generative missed connections poetry

Posted on March 9, 2011 by jack

I thought it would be interesting to generate poetry using Craigslist Missed Connections postings. I think there is something often sweet and romantic about these posts, and they tend to sound very poetic in their own right. Looking at the … Continue reading →

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Parts of Speech Visualizer

Posted on March 4, 2011 by jack

So, for this week, I modified the POSVisualizer code to export a text and color-code it by the parts of speech tag for each word. Here are the results for the first few paragraphs of Alice in Wonderland: Since the … Continue reading →

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