SOCIAL SYNTHESIZER from aetherbits on Vimeo.
We take pictures and post them on Flikr. We make calls on Skype. Now, a group of artists and software engineers are sweeping through the minutiae of our lives. These moments would have been lost in photo albums, stored in a musty basement. These conversations would have run through their finite course and be left only as fading memories of the participants.
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. No, in this case, the data is being smashed together and run through a real-time-score generator which turns the sounds from Skype and the images from Flickr into an audiovisual representation of human existence and experience on this planet.
Forget religion. Forget drugs. Forget music. This is higher consciousness, as revealed by the connectedness of all (or much of) humanity through technology. Woah!
(via Synthtopia)
[…] I saw this band earlier this year when they opened for Liam Finn. Tonight we had dinner with our pal Joe, who is free (somewhat like Mr. FBdN) as his family has already left for Summer vacation. And, although Joe is joining them tomorrow, he was ours for the night. We started with a fine meal of Indian food at the Tiffin Store, then it was back to chez Beckerantz for some fun with BeatMaker and a screening of the substance of life that binds all humanity Social Synthesis teaser. […]
I wonder where this technology will be in 200 years, if we haven’t destroyed the planet by then.