FITC Amsterdam 2014

2014-02-24 00:00:00 2014-02-26 00:00:00 America/Toronto FITC Amsterdam 2014 Now in its 7th year, FITC Amsterdam 2014 is host to the latest and greatest in design, technology and cool shit from all around the globe. Amsterdam FITC Amsterdam

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Overview

Can we use technology to help us be more human? To smile more, to touch and to listen to each other? What if a computer could understand and make decisions about our social relationships better than we could ourselves? Would our interactions be improved by computationally determining what to do and say? What happens if we crowdsource our dating lives and actually find love? Lauren McCarthy describes her attempts to understand through an artistic practice involving hacking, design, and self-experimentation.