1. New York Times article about Carsten Höller, the artist now showing at the New Museum. His work captures a sense of innocent fun and experimentation, especially his famous slides. He also is interested in altering the viewer's mental state.
2. At the New Museum, Spartacus Chetwynd reacts to "over-professionalism" in contemporary art with a ragtag group of dancer-performers who celebrate improvisation and amateurism.
3. Face recognition
New York Times article explores the marketing trend of the future: facial detection and facial recognition. It explores issues of privacy associated with this advance and the murkiness of the law surrounding it.
4. Duck Duck Go is a search engine that seeks to eliminate the problems of the filter bubble caused by the algorithms in Google and Bing. It doesn't track your information to tailer a search result for your taste. Without that, you are able to encounter ideas that don't necessarily fit with your world view.
In this article, a rep from Google tells us how we can avoid some of Google's built in personalization features.
In this book, Eli Pariser explains the online filter bubble, an "individual universe of information" and argues that it is bad because it leaves "less room for the unexpected encounters that spark creativity, innovation, and the democratic exchange of ideas."
In this article, Parisner is quoted as saying that the Internet "can encapsulate us in a little bubble of our narrow interests, or it can connect us to new people and ways of thinking.” Parisner proposes that a greater collaboration between editors and code can solve the problem of the filter bubble.
5. Emerald Demo
Hunch is a recommendation site. It is also described as a collective intelligence decision-making system. These service-y sites are on the rise now, it seems. I can think of two, Jinni and Goodreads that serve similar functions.
6. My Demo!
A new camera for the iPhone lets you take panoramic video. It's a relatively cheap add-on with lots of potential uses. I can imagine it catching on.
7. Pearl's Demo
Pearl showed us a tourism video that lets users interact with panoramic images. Taken from a plane, the click of a mouse lets you see all different angles as the craft soars above a landscape. A great way to travel without leaving your seat!
8. A headset that reads your brainwaves
Tan Le's headset lets one alter images in a computer program with the power of one'smind. It was most effective in the demonstration when the tester performed a pre-programmed command. It was less effective when he had to rely more on his imagination to make the box disappear.
Hackers harness electrical activity in the brain to command Siri for the iPhone. It's not mind-controlled necessarily but it's a neat trick.
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