Postcards from Null Area 2016
The distinction between zero (the worth of total little) and null (the lack of importance alone) is actually a slight concept for humans. For computers, this distinction is fairly crucial, yet fraught with more problem and peril—leading to a complete category of software pests.
As a result of this phenomena, the majority of big sources of geotagged photo have a group of “lost” user data at latitude-longitude coordinates 0.0°, 0.0° – discoverable if plotted on a map a couple of hundred of miles off-shore in Gulf of Guinea. Unbeknownst towards the users regarding techniques, the regular and uncommon incident within this insect may move their unique uploads indeed there. Designers taking care of GIS systems conscious of this phenomena posses affectionately termed this venue “Null Island.”
For many years i have already been enamored with all the thought of those destroyed images, of people’s unknowing and accidental travels binding them collectively for this unreal yet actual space, plus in creating apparent the concealed connectivity.
What sort of location try Null Island? Who’s got seen there, and what experience bring (unknowingly) likely all of them along?
Postcards From Null Island is actually autonomous and unmonitored pc software that continually trawls Flickr and Instagram, looking for any newer photo which were published from Null isle. Every time they are situated, an actual postcard is actually printed and mailed in my opinion, making sure that we sporadically obtain mementos from people’s as yet not known and undiscovered trip to the mythical area.
For 1 season, these postcards appeared, and slowly started to inform a tale.
Operate in advancement, currently getting construction convention talks.
Unindexed 2015
a test in character of ephemerality and determination on line.
Unindexed is a website that continually browsed yahoo for alone again and again. The moment they discover by itself for the search results it would irrevocably and firmly delete itself, making the accurate immediate of algorithmic breakthrough the catalyst of destruction.
Tourist had been motivated to publish contributions on website (which will be ruined once the web site was found). They were next invited to express the site with others, considering the influence their unique technique of revealing will have on hastening the eventual knowledge associated with Address by yahoo search bots.
a pressure was created amongst the aspire to communicate and want to ensure that is stays to oneself, therefore the webpages dispersed on a tiny scale via postal mail, word-of-mouth, etc.
The site got discovered by yahoo after 22 times on Tue Feb 24 2015 21:01:14 GMT+0000 (UTC) and consequently instantaneously self-destructed milliseconds afterwards. Prior to the automatic removal it obtained a huge selection of customers and dozens of efforts. No backups happened to be kept.
Posthumously featured in VICE, Boing Boing, PC business, & “The unique Aesthetic and ways: Constellations of Postdigital” (Contreras-Koterbay/Mirocha, 2016).
Swipe Left 2014
We put drone attack “kill decision” images into the preferred Tinder mobile internet dating software, pushing consumers to vote yes or no regarding the artificial destiny of a subject.
After looking into the method via which drone attack destroy choices are made, I was into exploring the part of computer system mediated UI inside the reduced total of intricate decisions to easy binary choices. Tinder was actually a great program juxtaposing this, since it’s profits as a dating software is basically centered on it’s power to need program to change an inherently complex decision (finding a prospective intimate mate) into a simplistic game that feels as though it’s no consequences.
As a plus, the Tinder UI required users render a yes-or-no 
decision before they could proceed, pushing them to take part in my situationist experiment without power to opt-out.
Emoji Dolls 2014
Emojidoll is a bot that algorithmically assembles a humanoid decide of emoji glyphs regarding Twitter individual whom requests one.
Each doll is different and associated with the asking for user’s Twitter account, with over 15.6 million various likelihood.
Featured with time Journal, Constant Dot and Bustle.
Asking Pal 2013
Precisely what do folk want to know, although not wish others to know they wish to understand?
When anyone would you like to ask one thing awkward in a community message board, they frequently conclude their statement using the term “asking for a buddy.” This trope has become cliche to the stage so it’s most likely always utilized in self-parody.
Wondering Friend are a-twitter robot that discovers tweets that match that address routine, then anonymizes and reposts them.
Emojitracker 2013
Emojitracker was an experiment in realtime visualization of Twitter data.
Emoji, colourful icons on smartphones which are used for txt messaging, initially surfaced in Japan but I have since expanded to explosive worldwide appeal. Emojitracker makes use of realtime stream handling technology I created to be able to envision the complete volume of emoji application on Twitter in realtime. All 865 emoji icons tend to be introduced in a grid, which instantaneously lighting right up whenever a symbol is employed in a tweet, showing a huge selection of connections per second. The overall result would be to existing both the overwhelming level of symbolic interaction occurring, and work out noticeable the designs in how exactly we use this newer form of interaction.
Founded in July 2013, it has since analyzed over 25 billion tweets.
I modified Emojitracker into an actual physical fun setting up that has been showcased at Eyebeam artwork and development heart in January 2014. The projected installation promoted relationships, and guests typically drawn on their smartphones to manipulate the display, or engaged in argument regarding the general popularity and concept of different symbols.
Emojitracker was written about from the brand-new Yorker, New York circumstances, wall surface road record, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Spiegel, Le Monde, Wired, record, Vice, Hyperallergic, Information mag, involved, The brink, Gizmodo, Buzzfeed, and many others. Subsequently exhibited at Museo Nazionale del theatre (Torino, Italy), 2019.