Critical Digital Experience: a talk by Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Date: Mar. 25

Time: 12:30-1:30pm

Location: Center for Design, 180 Ryder Hall

Address: 11 Leon St. Boston, MA 02115

Jonah will discuss his projects and work in the themes of “Critical Digital Experience” and “Disruptive Technology & Networks”, with work that challenges and subverts accepted notions of network interaction and interface socialization.

Some projects he will discuss include:

• “BumpList”, an email community for the determined,
• “Weapon of Protest”, a modified game controller that protests gun violence in the US,
• “To Protect and Server” a critical modification of Google’s ReCaptcha software to emphasis police brutality and social justice,
• “Killer Route” a GPS navigation system that integrates live crime data,
• “Human Error” a series of works that emphasize humanity’s inability to understand technical interfaces,
• “Critical Media Art Meets A.I.” a take on artificial intelligence,
• “Environmental Inversion” a series of ecological interventions that subvert notions of climate change action,
• “ContactRot” an iPhone app that challenges our reliance on the cloud,
• “Alerting Infrastructure!”, a website hit counter that destroys a building

Jonah will finish with an interactive project audience members can engage with on their phones.

This event is co-sponsored by the Northeastern Department of Art + Design, the EXCITE Institute and the Center for Design.

Speaker Bio:
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is an artist, writer, and Associate Professor at Lehman College / CUNY. He received his Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin and his artwork has been exhibited at venues such as SFMOMA, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, MOMA, ICA London, Whitney Museum of American Art, Palais du Tokyo, Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, and more. His writing has appeared in publications such as WIRED and Make and his Scrapyard Challenge workshops have been held in over 15 countries on 5 continents.

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