{"id":679,"date":"2009-07-31T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2009-07-31T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:08:34","slug":"datamining-social-media-to-create-unconscious-collaborative-art-scary-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Datamining social media to create unconscious collaborative art &#8211; scary, amazing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5714470&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5714470&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5714470\">SOCIAL SYNTHESIZER<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1402086\">aetherbits<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We take pictures and post them on Flikr.\u00a0 We make calls on Skype.\u00a0 Now, a group of artists and software engineers are sweeping through the minutiae of our lives.\u00a0 These moments would have been lost in photo albums, stored in a musty basement.\u00a0 These conversations would have run through their finite course and be left only as fading memories of the participants.<\/p>\n<p>But datamining in this case is not about Dick Chaney recording those conversations or using those photos to incriminate and destroy enemies, real or imagined.\u00a0 No, in this case, the data is being smashed together and run through a <em>real-time-score generator<\/em> which turns the sounds from Skype and the images from Flickr into an audiovisual representation of human existence and experience on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>Forget religion.\u00a0 Forget drugs.\u00a0 Forget music.\u00a0 <em><strong>This<\/strong><\/em> is higher consciousness, as revealed by the connectedness of all (or much of) humanity through technology.\u00a0 Woah!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/synthtopia.com\">Synthtopia<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCIAL SYNTHESIZER from aetherbits on Vimeo. We take pictures and post them on Flikr.\u00a0 We make calls on Skype.\u00a0 Now, a group of artists and software engineers are sweeping through the minutiae of our lives.\u00a0 These moments would have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[634],"tags":[638,636,637,635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}