MEME.NET
Cyrus Khalatbari
HEAD – Geneva (HES-SO) | EPFL, Switzerland, Canada
MEME.NET is a Web App that combines the Twitter, Google and Tensorflow image recognition APIs to translate words by words into internet memes the textual content of randomly selected news tweets.
The project’s process performs a procedural authorship.
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MEME.NET is updated at each 30 minutes intervals with a new entry randomly sourced from a list of popular news providers.
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The project is a critique of social media platforms and their dynamics in turning our lives into a constant spectacle - a spectacle we observe through the mediation of these online platforms.
Cyrus Khalatbari
PhD candidate of the joint program between the Geneva Arts and Design University (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne). As designer and artist, his work inquires about our ubiquitous web user interfaces and experience’s (UX/UIs) values and ideologies through the design and production of alternative apps and data assemblages. Inside his PhD research, Cyrus bridges internet studies with critical and speculative computing in order to address, at the level of Graphical Processing Units (GPU), the intersections and frictions between our earth and internet megastructure.
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