Join Jonah Brucker-Cohen for Critical Networked Experience: An Artist Talk on October 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences as he discusses projects and work on the theme of “Critical Networked Experience” that challenges and subverts accepted notions of network interaction and socialization. His presentation will cross themes related to social justice and police surveillance, Artificial Intelligence and the loss of human skills, environmental artwork that challenges notions of sustainability, critical networked interfaces and more. He will end the evening with his interactive SMS visualization, “Rhetoricall”, that everyone in the audience can participate in.

Some projects 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, “ContactRot” an iPhone app that challenges our reliance on the cloud, “Alerting Infrastructure!”, a website hit counter that destroys a building, “WordPlay” a public installation for the New York Hall of Science.

About Jonah Brucker-Cohen:

Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Ph.D., is an artist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Lehman College / CUNY in the Bronx. He was a visiting artist at Cornell Tech and designer in residence at the New York Hall of Science. He received his Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin. His work focuses on “Deconstructing Networks” with works that challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction. 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 artworks, “Bumplist” and “America’s Got No Talent” are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has written for WIRED, Make, Gizmodo, Neural and more. His Scrapyard Challenge workshops have been held in over 15 countries in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, and Australia since 2003.

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