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Karsten Schmidt >
»Social Collider«, 2009
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Image courtesy of the artists
pohflepp.com
postspectacular.com
toxi.co.uk
Technology
Software
Social Collider is a new collaboration with Sascha Pohflepp, a JavaScript visualization to reveal cross-connections between conversations on Twitter. The project launched just 2 days ago and has been commissioned by Google for their Chrome Experiments collection and was produced by the friendly peeps at Instrument. Social Collider acts as a metaphorical instrument which can be used to visualize how memes are created and how they propagate. Ideally, it might catch the Zeitgeist at work
Descriptions & Essays
Karsten Schmidt, also known as Toxi, is the director of Post Spectacular, the London-based design studio. At the heart of his practice lies the use of code as a creative tool and open-source technologies. Schmidt believes in building his own tools, and his work stretches the possibilities of design through interdisciplinary practice and collaborative working. He was an early contributor to Processing.org, a website by Ben Fry and Casey Reas housing open-source programming language. His work is exhibited internationally including, at MoMA, New York. Recent projects include Forever, a generative installation with designers Universal Everything (V&A, 2008) and a generative design identity for the onedotzero Adventures in Motion Festival 2009.
As part of the Decode exhibition the V&A commissioned Schmidt to create an open-source marketing identity. View it here and get involved with the Recode project.
Karsten Schmidt also created Enerugii Wa Antee Shite Inai in the Code section of the exhibition
Literature
Onedotzero. Motion Blur 2: Multidimensional Moving Imagemakers. London, UK: Laurence King Publishing, 2009.
Beddard, Honor and Douglas Dodds. V and A Pattern: Digital Pioneers. London: V and A Publishing, 2009.
Catherine Mason. A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts
1950-1980. Norfolk, UK: JJG Publishing, 2008.
Onedotzero. Motion Blur: Graphic Moving Imagemakers Publishers. London, UK: Laurence King Publishers, 2006.
Exhibitions & Events