Everest Pipkin

Spring 2021 #OSSTA Lecture: Everest Pipkin

in Spring 2021 #OSSTA Lecture Series

In general I work with data sets, “big data,” but with the full knowledge that this is only ever the lives and experiences of people bundled up and repackaged through processes angled for usefulness or at the very least posterity.

Bots and the Rise of Digital Folk Art

in Bot Summit 2016

I’m interested in what happens when artists who are used to being artists decide that the best place for a work is within a space that seems to require an entirely different method of construction. And of course, there’s no harsh line between forms, and plenty of people exist both as highly-proficient working artists and exceptionally skilled programmers. Tons of them, right? But I’m not talking so much about the skill or even background. Instead of I’m interested in mentality.

Selfhood and the Icon

in Bot Summit 2014

Like mitosis, a copy has the capacity for individual mutation but does not intrinsically affect its parent. A retweet of information is not a duplication nor a shift in scale. A retweet impacts a structural bridge of a networked idea, not the intrinsic idea itself.