An interactive (and satirical) portrait of the psychological effects of large-scale Internet use on humanity

An (unrealized) video messenging service using dialogue snippets extracted from movies, commissioned by Netflix

An (unrealized) project to celebrate Google Translate’s milestone of 100 languages supported, commissioned by Google

An (unrealized) installion about online self-expression, commissioned by Twitter for their San Fransisco offices

An (unrealized) project about the evolution of consciousness on Earth, commissioned by U2 for their world tour

An interactive portrait of performance artist Vito Acconci, created in New York City shortly before his 75th birthday

A manifesto on the promises and perils of so-called ‘Big Data’ commissioned by The New York Times

A book exploring the world of human emotions as understood through Internet data, published by Simon & Schuster

A fractured collage of sexual desire among men and women, created in two hours at a live event in Brooklyn, New York

An (unrealized) project to gather stories from the people of China at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, commissioned by Kodak

An interactive portrait of the search for love (and self) through the world of online dating, commissioned by MoMA

An interactive system for generating new constellations, showing modern mythology as deduced from global news

A time capsule (the world’s largest) whose contents were beamed into space as binary code using a laser

An interactive portrait of passion — from love to hate — using real-time data collected from blogs

An exploration of human emotion through large-scale blog analysis, expressed through six interactive movements

An interactive visualization of real-time science news as a playful particle system, commissioned by Seed Magazine

An anonymous question and answer system with only one rule: to ask a question, you must first answer someone else’s

An (unrealized) installation using sheets of white paper, commissioned by the ‘Freedom Center’ at Ground Zero

An interactive mosaic of real-time blog images beginning with the letters V, O, R, and N — for Vorn Magazine

An interactive mosaic of the pictures and words that define the time, updated automatically each hour by analyzing global news

An experiment in computer vision tracking techniques: the classic game of limbo as an act of surveillance

An interactive visualization of the 88,000 most frequently used English words, displayed as a very long sentence

A set of infographic maps commissioned by the International Networks Archive at Princeton University

A news clustering service that automatically finds multiple perspectives on major international stories