World Translation Foundation: Group Research Presentation for MS2

May 11, 2014

The Curiousity of Language is a research presentation given my Ezgi Ucar, Niki Selken and Xiaoqi Liu

World Translation Foundation: User Scenario

March 15, 2014

User Background

The primary audience for my project is a tech savvy American man or woman between the ages of 18 and 44 with an interest in Japanese emoji, art, and language. They are the early adopter sort of person who uses Twitter and Texting quite frequently and enjoys adding content to websites like YouTube, Vine, and Reddit.

World Translation Foundation: exploring emoji as an abstracted communication form

March 12, 2014

My project deals with the question, how does technology mediate our relationships with each other? Does it contribute or disrupt human closeness and connection?

Design Brief

March 4, 2014

My project deals with the question, how does technology mediate our relationships with each other? Does it contribute or disrupt human closeness and connection?

Museum Interaction Design

Thesis

What I'm Thinking About

Parsons MFAD+T Projects

Fresh Posts

DATALAND did not appear from nowhere. In 2016, Gray Area and Google presented what has been described as the first exhibition of generative AI art. That same year, Meow Wolf opened a world audiences could physically enter. Later, through Gray Area’s Experiential Space Research Lab, I explored how immersive environments could do more than entertain. They could encourage agency, critical thinking, and new relationships between people, technology, and living systems. Now Refik Anadol’s DATALAND brings those histories together through AI, environmental data, biosensing, and responsive space. The biggest shift is not simply that AI has entered the museum. The museum itself is becoming a living system. I wrote about the longer history behind this Reel, what excites me about DATALAND, and the ethical questions a responsive museum must confront. Read the full story through the link in my bio. #DATALAND #RefikAnadol #AIArt #ImmersiveArt #DigitalArt #MuseumFuture

A lot of the AI conversation right now is about what machines can create. This story is about what they might help us recover. Researchers at Santa Clara University have developed an AI Provenance Assistant to help researchers trace artworks stolen during the Nazi era—searching across fragmented historical records and surfacing connections that might otherwise take enormous amounts of time to find. The AI doesn’t decide who owns a work. Humans still have to verify the evidence. But it can help researchers find the evidence. To me, this is a much more interesting vision of AI: not replacing human expertise, but giving people new ways to navigate enormous amounts of human knowledge. And sometimes, helping recover a history someone tried to erase. Read the full NPR story at the 🔗 link in my bio. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #ArtHistory #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage