Humanizing the Web
Theater 1
I will discuss the web as a means of exploring and understanding the human world.
Jonathan Harris is an artist and storyteller working primarily on the Internet. One part computer science, one part anthropology, and one part visual art, his work seeks to explore and understand the human world through the artifacts people leave behind on the Web. He has made projects about human emotion (http://wefeelfine.org), human desire (http://love-lines.org), modern mythology (http://universe.daylife.com), science (http://phylotaxis.com), news (http://tenbyten.org), and language (http://wordcount.org), and created the world's largest time capsule (http://timecapsule.yahoo.com). He studied computer science at Princeton University, and was awarded a 2004 Fabrica fellowship. The winner of two 2005 Webby Awards, Harris' work has also been recognized by AIGA, Ars Electronica, ID Magazine, and the State of Vermont, has been featured by CNN, BBC, Reuters, NPR, USA Today, Metropolis and Wired, and has been exhibited at Le Centre Pompidou (Paris), and soon at an upcoming show at MoMA (New York). He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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