24 July 2008

Collecting stories: Jonathan Harris on TED.com

At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing "We Feel Fine."(Recorded December 2007 in Los Angeles, California. Duration: 20:29.)

Watch Jonathan Harris's 2007 talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances.

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10 December 2007

The Whale Hunt: New work from Jonathan Harris

Artist Jonathan Harris (watch his TEDTalk) just launched his latest piece, The Whale Hunt. In this visionary, documentary work, Harris joins a family of Inupiat Eskimos on their annual whale hunt:

I documented the entire experience [in] 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant "photographic heartbeat." In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat.

Read Harris' full statement on the piece, watch the highlights, or just dive in -- to watch the passage of time, space and life under the Alaskan sky.

Photo: "May 6, 11:10pm Hauling up Joe Ahkivgaq's whale"
Courtesy Jonathan Harris, The Whale Hunt

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05 October 2007

Data at play: Some cool visualization tools

On Guardian Unlimited, Charles Arthur offers a neat roundup of new ways to see all kinds of data with fresh eyes. On the list: Jonathan Harris' "We Feel Fine" project (watch his TEDTalk) and, of course, Hans Rosling's Gapminder tools (watch his TEDTalks from 2006 and 2007).

The story is part of Guardian Unlimited's Free Our Data campaign, an effort to press the UK government to release mapping and demographic data about the UK and its citizens, collected by government entities -- who currently charge for access to it.

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10 July 2007

Jonathan Harris tells the Web's secret stories, on TED.com

Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web -- so he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize the data floating around out there. Here he presents "We Feel Fine," a project that scours blogs to collect the planet's emoti(c)ons, and the "Yahoo! Time Capsule," which preserves images, quotes and thoughts snapped up in 2006. And he premieres "Universe," which presents current events as constellations of words -- a tag cloud of our collective consciousness. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 19:37.) Read more about Jonathan Harris on TED.com.

Watch this talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances.

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