After [too long] all 57 artport “Gate Pages” are properly archived and mostly working again. This series ran from 2001 to 2006, and it’s an interesting time capsule of an experimental era, filled with Perl, Flash, and Java applets.
Category: Links
Rachel Rossin: The Maw Of
The Maw Of is an immense, incredible project with a ton of moving pieces. And some of those pieces took a fair bit of work to adapt to the museum’s various systems, including an IRL installation for Refigured.
Mimi Ọnụọha: 40% of Food in the US is Wasted (How the Hell is That Progress, Man?)
I did the coding for this project which included some slightly tricky video crossfading for seamless playback. The music loop is going to play in my head forever.
Rayyane Tabet: Becoming American
Becoming American is a project for the 2022 Whitney Biennial that includes a technical intervention across all of whitney.org, where visitors are prompted with questions from the US citizenship test.
michaelbot.website
Q: what is michaelbot?
A: square adjust placement and save each one alone or something Holy cow I love it
(michaelbot is a TensorFlow ML model served by Flask, trained on texts parsed from iMessage, that crashes a lot on an undersized server)
The Whitney’s Mobile Guide
Understanding our audiences: The Whitney’s Website Visitor Survey and its broader context
I was part of a presentation at MCN 2018 on a visitor motivation survey (VMS) we ran on whitney.org. As a group we covered the context of motivation-based surveys at museums and some key learnings for the Whitney, both in results and in strategy.
How Many Hoppers?
An up to date count of the number of works by Edward Hopper currently on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
1/1/2015 — 10/5/2016
An animated mapping exploration of the Washington Post’s fatal police shooting dataset. Locations are geocoded through the Google Maps API, and build up a familiar image of the United States.
Neuron
Mixed media enlargement of an imagined neuron, incorporating generative audio and video, projection mapping with Kinect and OpenCV, chicken wire, stainless steel, and acrylic.