work and research: faculty work

Amber Frid-Jimenez, Lecturer

Selected Lectures, Presentations, and Publications

2007

On the Cinematic Web, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Public Practice and Online Participation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Participation Art Online, CODE, Society of Literature Science and the Arts, Portland, ME

Digital Analog, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

ShiftSpace + OPENSTUDIO, Upgrade! International, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA

2006

Misty Dawn, video installation and performance for filmmaker Michel Gondry

Streets As Stage, Upgrade! International, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA

Sound Art, moderated by Anne Lislegaard, Graduate Art Forum, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Emma On Relationships: An Experiment in Online Participatory Performance, Digital Life Symposium, Media Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA

OpenBrand, Time, Inc., Time Warner Center, New York, NY

Audio Tagging: A Phone-based System for Online Performance , Simplicity Symposium, Media Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA

2005

Flexible Screen: A Design for a Mobile Folding Device, Time, Inc, Time Warner Center, New York, NY

OPENSTUDIO: An Experiment in Creativity, Collaboration, and Capitalism, Presentation with John Maeda and members of the Physical Language Workhsop, AIGA National Design Conference, Boston, MA

Gist Icons: A Visual Search Interface, Things That Think Symposium, Media Laboratory, MIT

Seeing Meaning, presented at Bodies in Play: Shaping and Mapping Mobile Applications, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Gist Icons: Seeing Meaning in Large Bodies of Literature , IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization. Presentation following publication with Philip DeCamp, Jethran Guinness, Deb Roy

2004

Visual Search Interfaces, Things That Think Symposium, MIT Media Laboratory Selected Media

Press, Books, Interviews

2007

Tierney, Therese, “Collective Cognition: Neural Fabrics and Social Software,” 2006 Collective Intelligence Design 75 (5): 37-45

2006

Everline, Theresa, “Art for Art’s Sake,” 30 July
The Boston Globe, Boston, MA

McMorrow, Paul, “OPENSTUDIO: How MIT is going to save Art,” 21 June 2006, The Weekly Dig, Boston, MA

Pohflepp, Sascha, “Interview with Amber Frid-Jimenez and Brent Fitzgerald,” 5 Dec. 2006, We Make Money Not Art, http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009176.php

Vande Moere, Andrew, “Document Icons,” 22 Feb. 2006, Information Aesthetics, http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/02/
document_icons.html

Watz, Marius, “The Joy of Visualizing Tree Structures,” 24 Feb. 2006, Generator.x, http://www.generatorx.no/20060224/the-joy-of-visualizing-tree-structures/