Tonight, the 23rd of November, Jonathan Harris is speaking at IDFA DOCLAB. It will be at 8:00p.m. at De Brakke Grond, and the session is called “Jonathan Harris and the Slow Web”. So… what is it all about? On the DOCLAB website we find the following introduction:”The Internet is like food. It’s easy to find fast and mass-produced junk, but much …
A few thoughts after WebDox 2013
WebDox 2013 has been an amazing conference: held in Leuven, Belgium, and organised by the Media Desk and iDROPS, WebDox has managed to pull together la crème de la crème of interactive documentary… The full programme can be found on Webdox’s website but, just to give you an idea, here was the line up: Jonathan Harris (US) – technological artist and maker …
i-docs and the art of intimacy
Jonathan Harris (We Feel Fine, The Whale Hunt, Cowbird, I Love your Work) will be giving a keynote at WebDox on Monday the 6th of May, in Leuven, Belgium. This is a real treat for us, i-docs lovers, as Jonathan is one of the very few people that have managed to transform “data” into a meaningful universe that feels safe, …
Jonathan Harris, or the personal story as creation
Jonathan Harris, the mind behind We Feel Fine and Cowbird, among others, was in Barcelona to attend the OFFF 2012 Festival. In a packed hall, he talked about his work and his life and how both are connected. I wrote an article for La Vanguardia about it: You could say that Jonathan Harris (Vermont, 1979) is a programmer who tells stories, or …
Jonathan Harris is back, and this time it is an i-doc!
Have a look to this interview with social network visualization master Jonathan Harris. He is working on an i-doc on lesbian porn (rather unusual, I must say). It will be a format full of 10: 10 interviews, 10 seconds long video clips, 10 days etc… For now it is exhibited at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in NYC, but it is soon …