HyperStudio Talk
Leave Any Noise at the Signal / Participation Art Online
Amber Frid-Jimenez
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Friday, October 10, at noon
Room 14E-310
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The HyperStudio team would like to invite you to the first of a series of HyperStudio Talks on digital humanities and cultural practices. This talk by Amber Frid-Jimenez traces the history of participation in artistic movements and early networked communication to contextualize a series of experimental projects at the intersection of performance and participation online.
Online participatory media holds the promise of activating otherwise passive audiences by providing spaces that encourage creative collaboration among diverse participants.
Projects to be discussed include WikiPhone, in which multiple participants collaborate on soundtracks; OpenBrand, a system that allows participants to rewrite advertisements; Emma On Relationships, a video blog inviting participants to call in for love advice; and several other projects, exploring aspects of creativity and collaboration. Commonalities within these systems are examined in order to define design principles governing the creation of participatory media, and to explore the potential of these systems to effect social and political change.
About the speaker
Amber Frid-Jimenez is a new media artist, technologist, and designer whose work confronts issues ranging from politics and surveillance to representations of women in media. Her recent work includes interactive video installations, performance-based participation from large-scale online audiences, print design and painting. Frid-Jimenez is currently teaching in the MIT Visual Arts Program and the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a 2008 Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellow Nominee, 2008 Fellow for Extending Creativity in Digital Media for the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the 2006–7 Steven R. Holtzman Fellow for Digital Expression. Frid-Jimenez is a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory where she studied with John Maeda in the Physical Language Workshop. Prior to beginning her degree, she researched the aesthetic and social implications of collecting and mining large databases of text in the Cognitive Machines Group at MIT.
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