Contemporary Issues in New Media

Robotic Painting Machine

• Nov. 7, 2016
• Ben Grosser
• Assistant professor of New Media
• Software
• stuff we engage with all day long
• involve social and political situations
• How are they changing how we thing?
• Interactive Robotic Painting Machine 
• listens to the environment and makes a picture based on what's making noise
• Facebook Demetricmator
• stops all quantitative metrics on facebook users
• Stops all subconscience pressure to compare
• relaxes self imposed rules
• Ask the questions of why we are obsessed with #
• Tracing You (2015)
• computar surveillance system
• some say it's:
• creepy
• cool
• Most of the people were upset with how it could NOT find them
• not at how easy it WOULD find them
• Shows how expecting of being serveiled we are
• Music Obfoscator
• evades normal music algorithm so that a person can use it without the normal web detector finding out