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    Kim Lacey

    PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition (almost done!) with interests in digital humanities, memory studies, and persuasive technologies.

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    Kinect hack

    Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 | kimlacey

    At a recent conference, I watched this performance type presentation that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. (Stick with me, it might be tough to describe!) The speakers mined Twitter feeds that used the conference’s hashtag. Using the words from only those posts, other users were able to create new Tweets from only those terms. The cool thing about it was the way someone actually Tweeted. The presenters hacked a Kinect so that the conference feed would project on a screen, allowing the users standing in front of the screen to actually “grab” and “move” the words into a new Tweet. (If you’re struggling with a visual, it looked very Minority Report-y.) I’m interested in talking about some of the ways we’re hacking (recreating? remaking?) new technologies to invent new ways of making text.