Jonathan Harris

Artist & Computer Scientist

Speaker at the session: Surveillance, Self-Exposure and Storytelling Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, Jonathan Harris designs systems to explore and explain the human world. He studied computer science at Princeton. One of his projects was among those commissioned by Yahoo! to build one of the world's largest time capsule, and MoMA commissioned him to build an interactive installation about online dating. Jonathan Harris is also the creator of wefeelfine.org.

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    About the session

    Surveillance, Self-Exposure and Storytelling

    Do virtual footprints reveal what people are feeling and looking for?

    SPEAKER: Jonathan Harris (US), Artist & Computer Scientist
    MODERATOR: Mads Brügger (DK), journalist & studievært, DR

    Using concrete examples from the last seven years of his own work, Jonathan Harris will show how espionage and passive observation can be used to reveal honesty and beauty in the everyday lives of normal people. In doing so, he crafts portraits of the human world through secret analysis of our footsteps. Spanning the offline and online worlds, the journey will stretch from the frozen ice of the Arctic and high into the Himalayan Mountains of Bhutan to social networks, blogs, and Internet dating sites.

    N.B.: Jonathan Harris requested not to be webcasted

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