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Thinking Digital: Artist Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris presents his "We Feel fine" project at TedTalks '07
"Thinking Digital" will witness the digital innovations of visual artist Jonathan Harris in May.
Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling Jonathan Harris examines the world through artifacts found on the web.
His complex computer programs scour the internet for unfiltered content interpreting them into visual interfaces, making sense of the infinite digital world we call the "web".
He has made projects about human emotion (wefeelfine.org), human desire (love-lines.org), modern mythology (universe.daylife.com), science (phylotaxis.com), news (tenbyten.org), anonymity (justcurio.us) and language (wordcount.org).
In 2006 Jonathan Harris buried the world's largest time capsule (timecapsule.yahoo.com), which was translated into 10 languages. Most recently, he documented an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt with eight days of consecutive photographs taken at five minutes intervals (thewhalehunt.org).
The featured TedTalks video of "We Feel Fine", "Universe" and "Yahoo Time Capsule" projects is a taster of what to expect from Thinking Digital.