About Maria

I am working on it this week.

I have been working on a "vibrant" Android Application for a research project funded by Intel, surrounding the issue of vibrancy in technology. The application allows mobile phones to communicate with other mobile phones in their proximity.
My ongoing eye tracking attire project is an exploration into the language of the eyes, the way we use them to communicate, and what we can do with this powerful form of communication.
The Googler was one of my first code projects and I am continuing to iterate it. The Googler brings google further into our conversations by monitoring spoken conversations via speech recognition software and representing it ambiently, as it is interpreted through google image search.

I am working on a documentary that uses the language of the eyes to edit the film. The subject is the language of the eyes themselves - how we use it, how we acknowledge or deny this, imagining how the language of the eyes could be used to archive what we see, and what this may say about how we see ourselves.
I was inspired last week by all of the talk about online identity driven narcissism. As we craft our online image to mind our identity, this image of the self has becomes more conscious, present, and fabricated than in the days when Guy Debord coined the Society of the Spectacle.
Visible Voyeur is an art installation, originally installed on the highline park, and then at the !Spring!Winter show at 319 Scholes. The piece is a series of viewfinders that invite the viewer to discover intimate views of people, inviting an act of voyeurism in a public setting.