EV Graduate Seminar - AD508 F08

Complicit Warnings
AD 508
Benjamin Thorp
Complicit Warnings involves computer vision and also is grappling with issues of surveillance, complicity (of those being surveilled) and the potential for liberatory action. The work engages how people experience spatial forms when they are filled in with dynamic and rich multimedia information and how we’ve adapted and reacted to the knowledge [...]

Complicit Warnings
AD 508
Benjamin Thorp
Complicit Warnings involves computer vision and also is grappling with issues of surveillance, complicity (of those being surveilled) and the potential for liberatory action. The work engages how people experience spatial forms when they are filled in with dynamic and rich multimedia information and how we’ve adapted and reacted to the knowledge [...]

Ideology:
1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
Dogma:
1. a system of principles or tenets, as of a church.
2. a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down, as by a church: the dogma of the Assumption.
3. prescribed doctrine: political dogma.
4. a settled or established opinion, belief, or principle.
“The influence of the media [...]

Life Casting
thepoeticsofaugmentedspace PDF

So the history of touch interfaces. It’s informative and a good resource for research for sure, it’s more than a little dry, it’s a technical paper… informally structured. The lack of structure makes it less painful to read and it’s half-fun to see the development of products that i’ve used or find interesting such as [...]

computer vision and artist… this field relatively untapped is often relegated to government, and security investment. As the space opens up for artist to more easily consider motion tracking, recognition and other aspects of computervision as a potential tool for installations and process, the questions to grapple with seem to be unavoidably linked to issues [...]