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Susana Zaragoza

I am a Spanish professional within the cultural field. since 2003, I have been involved in several cultural cooperation projects related to new media in Brazil, Spain and Uruguay. All them are presented in my personal blog. I am a current student at UvA University. My aim is to gain new inputs and academic knowledge in the New Media academic field.

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Data Choreography

Data Choreography

Information visualization field is lately becoming more and more manisfested in the physical space;  in some cases as an everyday life practice and more often in the form of an ambient object . We can observe projects in which...
By Susana Zaragoza on 05/10/10 2
Visualizing the ‘invisible space’

Visualizing the ‘invisible space’

We live in a constant struggle to steer through the big and varied torrent of data which is unleashed everyday. And “data” can cover many different things. By following the Concise Lexicon for the Digital Commons created in 2001...
By Susana Zaragoza on 04/20/10 1

Mapping politics through art. Is it effective?

When the french philosopher Alain Badiou presented his essay “Fifteen Thesis on Contemporary Art” published in 2004, he took an artwork by Mark Lombardi, as an illustration of his talk. This artwork was a map. It was more exactly...
By Susana Zaragoza on 10/31/09 Comments Off on Mapping politics through art. Is it effective?

Diagrams of the false

Personas is a student’s project developed in the MIT Media Lab that shows people how Internet sees them. Using a language processing, computer creates a data profile of your online identity, when entering your name. The program attempts to...
By Susana Zaragoza on 10/13/09 Comments Off on Diagrams of the false

From Tweet to Hypertextual Consciousness?

One might claim that Twitter is just another boring conversational platform not very different from any other kind of social network site, where you can share your cuts-ups of personal information instantly with your friends. But in a social-humanistic...
By Susana Zaragoza on 10/04/09 2
Recommendation vs Consumption in the social networks

Recommendation vs Consumption in the social networks

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine published The Long Tail article in October 2004 to describe an statistic feature of some statistical distributions that affect to current and future business models. Since then, traditional marketing field has became totally...
By Susana Zaragoza on 09/26/09 1

Wikipedia Art: a case of study

Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern are two American artists who launched a new entry in Wikipedia, called Wikipedia Art, the last 14th of February, 2009. Their proposal was a conceptual work that allowed people to alter the page as...
By Susana Zaragoza on 09/20/09 Comments Off on Wikipedia Art: a case of study
Review of Expanded ORIGINAL. Cornelia Sollfrank

Review of Expanded ORIGINAL. Cornelia Sollfrank

A smart artist makes the machine do the work. Cornelia Sollfrank German artist Cornelia Sollfrank’s career has been linked to hacking, conceptual art, cyberfeminism and net.art. Since the nineties, she examines the digital cultural techniques of copying and the...
By Susana Zaragoza on 09/16/09 Comments Off on Review of Expanded ORIGINAL. Cornelia Sollfrank