*Artist-in-Residence Jonathan Harris will present contrast the artistic process in traditional and digital media*

 *November 3, 2010
 *5:30 pm
 *301 Williams Hall 

 Jonathan Harris 

 *In this art focused lecture he will explore the nature of artistic practice in both traditional and digital media.  * 

 *Summary*
 Combining elements of computer science, visual art, anthropology,
 architecture, and storytelling, Jonathan's projects create large-scale
 living portraits of the human world --- portraits that both simplify
 and complicate our understanding of it. In this talk Jonathan will contrast
 the artistic process in the creation of his hand drawn and painted artist books
 with his C++ based interactive digital media project, I Want You to Want Me,
 commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art in NYC. He will discuss the challenges
 and opportunities of his transformation from traditional media artist to
 computer programmer. 

 *Speaker Bio*
 Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to
 technology and to each other. Combining elements of computer science,
 anthropology, visual art and storytelling, his projects range from
 building the world's largest time capsule
 <http://www.number27.org/timecapsule.html> (with Yahoo!
 <http://timecapsule.yahoo.com>) to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale
 hunt <http://www.number27.org/whalehunt.html> on the Arctic Ocean (with
 a warm hat
 <http://www.number27.org/assets/bio/photos/whalehunt-web.jpg>). He is
 the co <http://www.kamvar.org>-creator of We Feel Fine
 <http://www.number27.org/wefeelfine.html>, which continuously measures
 the emotional temperature of the human world through large-scale blog
 analysis, and has made other projects about online dating
 <http://www.number27.org/iwytwm.html>, modern mythology
 <http://www.number27.org/universe.html>, anonymity
 <http://www.number27.org/justcurious.html>, news
 <http://www.number27.org/10x10.html>, and language
 <http://www.number27.org/wordcount.html>. After studying computer
 science at Princeton University <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/>, he won
 a 2005 Fabrica <http://fabrica.it> fellowship and three Webby Awards
 <http://webbyawards.com>. His work has also been recognized by AIGA,
 Ars Electronica, the state of Vermont (for which he co-designed the
 state quarter <http://www.netstate.com/states/quarters/vt_qtr.htm>),
 Print Magazine (which named him a 2008 New Visual Artist
 <http://www.printmag.com/Default.aspx?tabid=317>) and The World
 Economic Forum (which named him a 2009 Young Global Leader
 <http://www.weforum.org/docs/ygl/YGL_Honorees_2009.pdf>). He has given
 talks at Google, Princeton and Stanford Universities, the TED
 Conference <http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/144>, and at two hippy
 forest gatherings. His projects have been shown at The Museum of Modern
 Art <http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/58> (New York), Le
 Centre Pompidou <http://2005to2007.fabrica.it/pompidou/home.htm>
 (Paris), and have appeared on CNN, NPR, BBC, and Bhutanese television.
 Born in Vermont <http://www.number27.org/vermont.html>, he now floats
 between Brooklyn, NY, the open road, and cyberspace, documenting his
 life with one photo a day <http://www.number27.org/today.php>. 

 *Sponsoring Organizations*
 This talk is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for
 Research, the Complex Systems Center, the College of Engineering and
 Mathematical Sciences, and the Department of Art & Art History.
 Additional support provided by Burlington City Arts, Small Dog
 Electronics, and Champlain College.