Kyle McDonald is an artist who primarily works with code. He is a contributor to openFrameworks and other tools that use algorithms. According to his bio, he " enjoys creatively subverting networked communication and computation, exploring glitch and embedded biases, and extending these concepts to reversal of everything from personal identity to work habits." He's a member of F.A.T. lab,adjunct professor at ITP, resident at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie mellon.
His work Conversnitch, 2013-2014 with Brian House features a lamp that listens in on people's conversations and livetweets them using a small mic and a raspberry Pi that records audio snippets and uploads them to Mechanical Turk for automated transcription.
Conversnitch from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
- I enjoy the relationships that he creates betweeen people and technology, the way that people serve as the seed for the creation of the art, but ultimately have to give up control of the information/data. I'd like to do something similar, with people providing information but otherwise not actively participationg in the technology's creation of art.
Connected Worlds by Design I/O is a large scale immersive installation developed for the New York Hall of science. It is fascinating and beautiful.
- This is really very much in line with the solarpunk aesthetic I'd like to include in my piece. The merging of nature/tech in such a way is something i would like to emulate.
Arnaud Pottier is the Art Director of the BK Digital art Company. His GOLEM series uses projection mapping on statues to create something that falls quite deeply into Uncanny Valley. The sculptures seem to literally come to life. The creepy music doesn't really help either.
- there's an element of 'uncanny valley' to this particular work.
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