Many of you might now Jonathan Harris, but as he has a portfolio site up for some weeks now I’d like to point you to his works.

“Jonathan Harris is an artist and storyteller working primarily on the Internet. One part computer science, one part anthropology, and one part visual art, his work seeks to explore and understand the human world through the artifacts people leave behind on the Web.”

Out of his many amazing ideas I was deeply impressed by We feel fine - an exploration of human emotions when I saw at OFFF 2006 for the first. As most of his works it uses data sources on the web to show cultural/social doherences.

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Did you see the “DejaVu” Movie with Denzel Washington, where they took photo- and videodata to construct a complete 3d view of a crime scene? Sounds like Sci-Fi? Then check out the demo of the photosynth-technology. They scan photos from any given database (e.g. Flickr) and ananlyze them for similarities to construct 3d models of any given space.

You can even test the application live on the web here.

Mario Klingemann spoke at the OFFF festival this weekend.
He presented some of his digital found footage experiments, where he uses data from the internet and recombines them in his flash experiments. The piece Flickeur is very atmospheric and suggestive, creating a very poetic work of net art.

“Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip.”

Island of Consciousness is a further development of the concept, together with sound artist Oleg Marakov.