Drawn by ITP Alum Jonny Goldstein
On January 5, 2017, the White House announced the release of bulk downloads of social media data associated with the Twitter, Facebook and Vine accounts of the White House Staff, President Obama himself, and Michelle Obama.
The purpose of this release is to invite the public to help archive and memorialize the data. The White House contacted ITP in the hopes that we might be able to seed some creative ideas: Twitter bots, data visualizations, research tools, generative poetry, and other art projects.
And so on January 6th, one day after the release, a gathering of artists and coders from ITP (Tisch School of the Arts), IDM (Tandon School of Engineering), and the NYC creative coding community gathered at ITP to examine the data, brainstorm ideas, and build projects.
You can read more about the Obamathon here.