Scrapism: An Experimental Web Publishing Workshop

This event is only for our current  NYU Tisch ITP/IMA Students, ITP/IMA Faculty, and ITP/IMA Staff.

Web scraping is the process of automatically downloading and manipulating web content. It's a common practice in silicon valley, where corporations large and small transform open html pages into commodified datasets.

As an alternative, "Scrapism" is the practice of web scraping for artistic, emotional, and critical ends. Combining aspects of experimental publishing, data journalism and conceptual art, it offers a methodology to make sense of a world in which everything we do is mediated by internet companies.

In this workshop we will use a variety of techniques to capture and transform publicly available data into artistic, critical outcomes on the web.

Bio:
Sam Lavigne is an artist and teacher whose work deals with data, surveillance, automation, and justice. He has taught at ITP/NYU, The New School, and the School for Poetic Computation, and was formerly Magic Grant fellow at the Brown Institute at Columbia University, and Special Projects editor at the New Inquiry Magazine. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at UT Austin.

Please RSVP to:  rsvp@itp.nyu.edu

This event is only for our current  NYU Tisch ITP/IMA Students, ITP/IMA Faculty, and ITP/IMA Staff.