Creative Technology Field Notes
Humor, Failure, and the Art of Subversion with Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Mar 25, 202627 minS0
<h2 >Overview</h2> <p>Jonah Brucker-Cohen has spent over two decades turning familiar systems into subversive art. His method: take something everyone uses (a mailing list, a crosswalk button, a login screen) and break it in a way that makes you laugh, then think.</p> <p>Jonah walks through several recent projects that use public data to expose invisible urban realities, such as a crosswalk timer that delays your crossing based on the street’s accident history, a weather system that shows how temperature maps to neighborhood wealth, and a GPS app that routes you through the most dangerous parts of...
