Code Art

[dkoloditch]

A code art project that uses technology to draw attention to a community issue. City of Denver might be interested in hosting this in a public place. Would be fun and creatively challenging.

See https://devart.withgoogle.com/ for examples.

Possibly long term.

Ideas / Thoughts / Notes:

1. Utilize citizen reporting to create mobile app(s) that collects data about the experience of poverty, discrimination, or the like, with the potential to map and transform that data in a tangible and meaningful way (sound, lighting, etc).
2. http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/paul-graham-wrong-inequality.html. How can we use technology to have a positive impact on social inequality? Can increased awareness through tech art accomplish this? If so, how?
3. http://howdy.ai/botkit/

[dviramontes]

+1

[dviramontes]

It's called:

_dont talk about politics_

I don't have it all solidified but with your help maybe we can make it more concrete.

Its basically about how most of don't get to choose to be political because our existence is politicized from birth.

Have you ever had a friend say, "why you gotta talk about politics man?" as if it it was an option for some people.

With upcoming presidential election there will be a lot of data specifically twitter data what we can choose to re-interpret in a different way.

More to come..

[eemshi]

I really like this idea David

A while ago I saw this kickstarter for a project that was exploring a new way to contextualize keywords and hashtags on social media: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetreport/decolonize-the-internet/?ref=kicktraq

The concept was interesting but maybe too inaccessible, it never got funded... Anyway there could be a simpler (artful) way of combining and contextualizing existing data to paint a landscape of the conversations that are happening on twitter, fb, etc..

[dviramontes]

@eemshi yes! exactly and wow what a crazy cool project. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to possibly borrowing ideas from it.