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\n \nFolly, FACT and Cornerhouse present<\/p>\n JAMES COUPE<\/strong><\/p>\n \nTODAY, TOO, I EXPERIENCED SOMETHING I HOPE TO UNDERSTAND IN A FEW DAYS<\/p>\n Launched March 15th, 2010<\/p>\n Running as a permanent Facebook Application \n http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/i-hope-to-understand<\/a><\/p>\n And as a YouTube Channel \n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ihopetounderstand<\/a> \n <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n <\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n	\n \n \nJAMES COUPE: TODAY, TOO, I EXPERIENCED SOMETHING I HOPE TO UNDERSTAND IN A FEW DAYS<\/strong> \nEvery day, this work automatically generates a video and uploads it to YouTube and Facebook. The video’s narrative is algorithmically constructed from Facebook status updates published by people from Barrow, England. Demographic information extracted from these updates is matched with a database of video portraits and clips from contextually relevant YouTube videos. The status updates that the project selects are typically from a number of different users, as the system seeks out the best combination of available posts until it finds something that can be considered a story. <\/p>\n The result is a collective narrative that dynamically evolves in tandem with the events, obsessions and dialogs that shape our lives. It approaches social networks as generative spaces in which personal, introspective reflections and public announcements combine with a broad fascination with the lives of others to build meaning from shared real-time, non-linear, simultaneous data.<\/p>\n Commissioned for the Abandon Normal Devices Festival<\/a>, this is the first in a series of site-specific Facebook artworks by Coupe, exploring the relationship between voyeurism and \nexhibitionism inside social networks. Facebook status updates can be considered as a form of networked storytelling, through which we communicate what we do, and how we want to be seen. They are also a new form of voluntary self-surveillance, evoking Foucauldian concerns with the self-regulating effect of conscious and permanent visibility.<\/p>\n To receive updates from the project, including new videos as they are generated, join the Facebook application or subscribe to the YouTube channel: \n http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/i-hope-to-understand<\/a> \n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ihopetounderstand<\/a><\/p>\n James Coupe<\/strong> \n… turning traditional methods of filmmaking upside down, Coupe takes an algorithmic approach to cinema and, in doing so, transforms reality into narrative.<\/em><\/p>\n *James Coupe is a British artist based in Seattle. He works primarily with installation, video and the internet. His controversial recent work with "surveillance cinema", in projects such as* (re)collector<\/a> and Surveillance Suite<\/a>, uses computer vision software to extract demographic and behavioral information from video footage. The footage is then automatically reorganized and recontextualized into narratives, often based upon classic film scripts.<\/p>\n Notable exhibitions include New Contemporaries at Camden Arts Centre, Low-Fi at Stills Gallery Edinburgh and the Enter_ Festival in Cambridge. In 2009 he received a Creative Capital award to develop Surveillance Suite<\/a> as a museum-based interactive installation, and completed a Folly\/Lanternhouse International residency.<\/p>\n *\n www.jamescoupe.com<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n* <\/body> \n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" $\"\"$ <\/a> Folly, FACT and Cornerhouse present JAMES COUPE TODAY, TOO, I EXPERIENCED SOMETHING I HOPE TO UNDERSTAND IN A FEW DAYS Launched March 15th, 2010 Running as a permanent Facebook Application http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/i-hope-to-understand And as a YouTube Channel http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ihopetounderstand JAMES COUPE: TODAY, TOO, I EXPERIENCED SOMETHING I HOPE TO UNDERSTAND IN A FEW DAYS Every day, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-855","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}