Noah Levenson
Noah Levenson (born 1981) is an American computer programmer and the creator of Stealing Ur Feelings, an interactive project that won Mozilla's $50,000 prize for art and advocacy exploring artificial intelligence.[1] Stealing Ur Feelings won the 2020 Webby Award in the category of Immersive And Mixed Reality.[2]
Career[edit]
In 2017, Levenson created Weird Box, an interactive project about social media privacy that was featured in Fast Company[3] and SFist.[4]
In 2018, he created Stealing Ur Feelings, a web-based augmented reality experience that was awarded Mozilla's $50,000 prize for art and advocacy exploring artificial intelligence. The project explores the dangers of facial emotion recognition AI in consumer applications.[5] It was executive produced by Brett Gaylor, director of Do Not Track.
Stealing Ur Feelings premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival[6] and was an official selection of the Camden International Film Festival[7] and Montreal International Documentary Festival.[8]
Levenson's work has been the subject of articles in Scientific American,[9] Engadget,[10] and El Pais.[11] He has been interviewed about artificial intelligence and corporate practices for Report on Rai3[12] and CBC Radio One.[13]
He has written about the internet and meme culture for the NY Daily News.[14]
References[edit]
- ^ Gaylor, Brett. "Keeping AI Accountable with Science Fiction, Documentaries, and Doodles (Plus $225,000)". The Mozilla Blog. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "People's Voice Winner". Webby Awards. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ Berkowitz, Joe (2017-06-23). "Your Instagram Photos Star In This Funny (And Creepy) Short Film". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "Strangely Fascinating Website Makes Your Instagram Account The Star Of Odd Video: SFist". SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports. 2017-06-29. Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "Stealing Ur Feelings". MIT - Docubase. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "More than Meets the Eye: Announcing the Tribeca Immersive Lineup at Tribeca 2019". Tribeca. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "CIFF 2019". ciff19.eventive.org. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "Stealing Ur Feelings". RIDM. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ Bushwick, Sophie. "This Video Watches You Back". Scientific American. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "An AR film explores the worst tech companies could do with your face". Engadget. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ Martínez, Héctor Llanos (2020-01-15). "Activa tu cámara si quieres ser protagonista de este documental interactivo". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
- ^ "App-arenze - Report". Rai Report (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "Stealing Ur Feelings". Let's Go with Sabrina Marandola. November 15, 2019.
- ^ Levenson, Noah. "Is this the meme singularity? What the Kanye West-Donald Trump Oval Office meet says about us all". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2020-01-12.