My army of Traceys

By traceymeloche on December 5th, 2009, 10:31 pm 0 Comments

Hooray! My blog is up and marching with 25 posts in 24 hours. I am using 4 different google alerts that use my name in some form or another. The blog is called it’s weird…being Tracey and the link is http://itsweirdbeingtracey.blogspot.com/

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help gathering data for infographic

By traceymeloche on October 31st, 2009, 9:42 pm 4 Comments

I have been spurred on by a discussion I had with Stephen, a class or two ago, that deals with getting the H1N1 vaccine. I am trying to sort through web sites that are either pro vaccine and those that are against the vaccine. Its slow going. So far it seems that there are more that are pro. My problem is how do I come up with the numbers. I have searched “polls” for the vaccine info but what I come across are the numbers for people that are pro or con (so far Canadians stand at 48% con and 51% pro) but I can’t figure out how to find out how many websites are one or the other. Does anyone know of sites that give information on the number of sites that exist on any given topic?

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Google_Colour

By kateruszczak on September 23rd, 2009, 1:02 am 3 Comments

Pascal Dombis uses computers to create unpredictable and powerful visual forms of videos, lights boxes, and digital wall drawings. He challenges the viewer to confront their own primitive irrationality.

He created a piece called ‘Google_ Colour” that I found interesting and I wanted to share with you guys.  He used the google search engine to gather his images, just by tying in a colour. Whether he used black, white or even red it did not matter that the images was not that colour, it was about the visual space they created when they all came together.

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Search:

By asianmike on September 13th, 2009, 4:15 pm 0 Comments

Search, an interactive web-based installation created by artist Mary Flanagan commits to showing the relationships created through our use of internet search engines. As our population grows so does our familiarity with the internet as well; with more people browsing online comes the need for a way to archive and find information fast and quickly. Services such as Google have come to prominence due to their ease in completing the task of searching for information on the web.

Flanagan, in her piece tries to create relationships between the many anonymous users through the use of their search queries or terms. With doing this she allows potentially anonymous users connect with each other on a level where similar interests can be shared. She uses interactive, floating charts that continually spin to attract the user to new search requests. Topics that are constantly searched for stay apparent whereas older topics expire. This attitude is truly organic and and creates a juxtaposition of the internet not being just an electronic system but a biological, evolving entity as users become pseudo-gods.

Mary Flanagan's Search

{via maryflanagan.com}

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