I really liked Irene’s choice of using a word cloud to understand the most common words used when police become victims. It can be really hard to find a good use case for word clouds that one can actually learn …

I found Micah Scott’s Circle Forest to be a really interesting interactive exhibit, especially in the context of our drawing assignment. The “forest”  consists of a series of spinners, which each have their own personality and together control the color-mixing …

I’m excited by the Virtual Reality project ‘Tiltbrush’, which enables you to draw/sketch with controllers. Here is a video of its use by the Disney artist Glen Keane.

I was wowed by the playfulness, energy and wonder with which Glen …

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 …

I was particularly struck by Irene’s twitter bot displaying the locations at which individuals had been shot by police.  When dealing with a topic that is not only so serious, but also so topically hot right now, it can be …

I liked Luca’s Twitter bot, @ThisThingIs for how it exposes the world of classification algorithms to the average person in an easily shareable way that is both comical and sometimes makes you realize that if you were to think about …

@ThisThingIs by Luca Damasco is funny, original, technically impressive, and trains people how to deal with the reality of current image recognition software.

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Though I still don’t think I get Twitter, Zach’s human-body tweeting machine is fascinating to me; I really like the aesthetic of the oddly neon-rendered images and love imagining the bizarre range of bits and pieces floating around somewhere inside …