Video: Jonathan Harris
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Filmed on: October 16, 2010
About this
video
Combining elements of computer science, architecture,
statistics, storytelling and design, Jonathan Harris’s online projects
create large-scale living portraits of the human world—portraits that
both simplify and complicate our understanding of it. Jonathan discusses
his recent work and poses intriguing questions about what kind of space
the digital world is becoming and what that world is doing to us as
individuals.
Speaker bio
Jonathan Harris makes projects
that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other.
Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and
storytelling, his projects range from building the world’s largest time
capsule to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt on the Arctic
Ocean. He is the co-creator of We Feel Fine,
which measures the emotional temperature of the human world through
large-scale blog analysis, and created recent projects about online
dating, modern mythology, anonymity, news and language.
After studying computer science at Princeton University, Harris won a
2005 Fabrica fellowship and three Webby Awards. His work has also been
recognized by AIGA, Ars Electronica, the state of Vermont, Print
magazine and The World Economic Forum. He has given talks at Google,
Princeton and Stanford Universities, the TED Conference and at two hippy
forest gatherings. His projects have been shown at The Museum of Modern
Art, Le Centre Pompidou, and have appeared on CNN, NPR and the BBC.
Born in Vermont, he now floats between Brooklyn, the open road and
cyberspace, documenting his life with one photo a day.