Data-mining your childhood

Inspired by our discussion today… The Wilderness Downtown takes the address of the place where you grew up and sources images from Google Maps and Street View to tailor an HTML5 music video of Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait” to “your own” childhood memories. Here’s a behind-the-scenes video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKg2HJ_qvKA

And here’s the actual interactive site, which requires the use of the Chrome browser:

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

And speaking of data-mining, here’s a fun public service announcement – Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I

Wed, November 11 2015 » database, dreams, future cinema 2015, interactivity, remix/mashup, surveillance

2 Responses

Caitlin November 12 2015 @ 8:10 am
oh, I love that one.

here some video documentation of the other experiment I mentioned: take this Lollipop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4obWARnZeAs

not sure if it’s still an active experience, but you might do a search via Facebook to see if you can still do it.
Alison Humphrey November 12 2015 @ 8:55 am
Cool! Here’s the site, which still looks like it’s twitching, but I’m not sure I’m brave enough to try it:

http://www.takethislollipop.com/

Future Cinema – 2015

This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture. Our focus will be on the phenomenon Gene Youngblood described three decades ago as expanded cinema an explosion of the frame outward towards immersive, interactive and interconnected (i.e., environmental) forms of culture.

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