For my final project, I continued the work I started in a previous project attempting to isolate and re-contextualize images of people in Duke University’s collection of images of outdoor advertisements.
The previous iteration, in which I located as …
I would like to use my final project as an opportunity to continue to work with the outdoor advertising database. Specifically, I’d like to continue looking into ways to extract people and objects from their advertising context, placing them in …
For this project, I chose to explore the ROAD 2.0 library of outdoor advertisements via Duke University Libraries.
Because advertising reflects target demographics, and advertising en masse a supposed ideal of society, I was drawn to looking at the …
I’ve selected ROAD 2.0, a database of billboards and other outdoor advertisements ranging from about 1885 to the 1990s, courtesy of Duke University Libraries. I’m interested in advertisements for what they can reflect about whose needs represented and whose …
This number station map is an attempt at examining the invisible ecosystem of spy communication over shortwave radio waves. One message corresponds on the map to on blip and one circle, with each country sounding at a unique pitch. Through …
I’m interested in mapping number stations: encoded messages broadcast to spies over shortwave radio. There are two levels in which this relates to place: one is the mystery of where each station broadcasts from. For the most part, no …
Zenbot is a zen garden that you can interact with remotely via a desktop application and a robotic arm, which holds a small rake. One or more users at a time can connect to it over a network, raising, lowering, …
There’s something interesting to me in the way Shouvik’s “Predators of the Sky” and Irene’s Police shootings bot present images that were most likely captured prior to the events they are attached to, complicating both the sense of …
“Empathy Game” by Anna Anthropy is an installation piece in which players can wear a pair of her old shoes and walk around in them. The shoes have a pedometer attached to them, and players receive one point …