Tag: Kyle McDonald
The anti-Tinder has arrived and it has the hilariously dystopian, Silicon Valley-friendly name: pplkpr. More than just a dating app, pplkpr (pronounced “people keeper”), is a service that aims to monitor your real life interactions with people and eventually it blocks them on social media or schedules a date with them based on the information […]
“Making a living as an artist can be hard,” says WhoPaysArtists.com in the greatest understatement you’ll read today. Inspired by Who Pays Writers?, Kyle McDonald (People Staring At Computers, Conversnitch) and contributors have just launched a site welcoming users to anonymously share their experience being paid something (or nothing) by someone somewhere for working a certain number of hours, weeks […]
In a McDonald’s, in a bank, in library, in Washington Square Park, the lamps are listening to you. Artists Kyle McDonald and Brian House installed microphones equipped with Wi-Fi into lighting fixtures in all of the above locations, and are tweeting the conversations they overhear as part of their surveillance-art project Conversnitch. The snippets of […]
Remember all that noise about 3D-printed guns? And then the subsequent panicked government attempts to censor and regulate the downloads of files that take a huge, expensive effort to turn into breakable physical objects? F.A.T. artist Kyle McDonald has a few things to say about that. I believe that networked media, in its current form, can not […]
Kyle McDonald, an artist working with code has decided to put his own spin on Marina Abramović’s Kickstarter campaign by starting one of his own on GitHub. new project: mutual gaze intervention for marina abramovic. https://t.co/UAHefTLbKN if you're moved to donate leave a comment on the gist! — Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 29, 2013 McDonald’s […]
