Emotions + Algorithms = Stories

Social Media and Art 12 November 2009 | 0 Comments

With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook status updates, one expects to see all manner of ideas useful and useless, swirling around these platforms and vying for our attention. so it was no surprise when Mashable ran a piece last month on Twitter Art.  The ideas tend to revolve around the age-old putting visuals-to-text using — what [...]

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Does VC Funding for an Art Gallery spell the end of “High Art”?

The Dirty M**** Word 23 October 2009 | 0 Comments

I was struck by this article in today’s New York Times about 20×200 New York gallery owner Jen Bekman’s online venture. As the piece points out, the world of “high art” may be the last holdout in the broad world of art/media/design/film shift into the online space. It must appear profitable if investors are willing [...]

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