Lecture 5: Multiplicity
In this lecture I started with an anecdote about the wisdom of crowds, from James Surowiecki’s book of the same name. I talked about various aspects of the notion of multiplicity -“many-ness”- as it relates to networked media. I discussed and gave examples of sampling, iteration, combination, collaborative filtering, and so on. I then showed some example of the aesthetics of multiplicity, from the 1K project to Aaron Koblin’s Flightpatterns, through to MC Escher and the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics.
We finished with a video from TED demonstrating Photosynth. Which rocks. (Also: an analog precursor)
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