TEDxVancouver - Jer Thorp - The Weight of Data

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and the CBC. Thorp's award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia and all over the web. Most recently, he has presented at Carnegie Mellon's School of Art, at Eyebeam in New York City, and at IBM's Center for Social Software in Cambridge. He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, and is an adjunct Professor in New York University's ITP program.

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[konrad303]

As with pretty much everything related to Steve Jobs, he didn't actually invent it.

[BrotherWoody1]

When the NSA gets this data & they assume the wrong human context, does that mean that we'll be carted away as terrorists & never heard from again? Plus, who still trusts the NYT about much of anything except their sports reviews or theater times?

[Linda Kevin]

Big Data, Only in a human context will be Big Business! Thanks Jer for getting us thinking outside the graph.

[Chaoyang Liu]

we used to play with apps, now it is data, and again we start with visualization.

[Ryan Merkle]

YouTube "True Theory of Everything Quadrant Model of Reality 1

[NakedUndone]

Hypercard the last application shipped with a commercial computer that allows the user to write programs? What about Excel?

[wiseman2131]

JESUS CHRIST THAT MIC IS DEAFENING.

[acey22]

I think that he is trying to make people agree to give there information away, why els would he bring 9/11 into it and try to win everyone over emotionally. Just because it seems more liberal docent mean theres not propaganda in it. I also saw that in demo of what it would look like and it looked like google maps. Why do you need to save your history online if you can just save it in your heart?

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[xdrenailegendx]

AutoHotKey is the new HyperCard. It should be standard on every machine in my opinion.

[xXxepicauzziexXx]

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