{"id":37332,"date":"2012-03-01T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tedxvancouver-jer-thorp-blprnt-the-weight\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T20:30:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:30:34","slug":"tedxvancouver-jer-thorp-blprnt-the-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tedxvancouver-jer-thorp-blprnt-the-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"TEDxVancouver &#8211; Jer Thorp (@blprnt ) &#8211; The Weight of Data | CreativeApplications.Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/news\/tedxvancouver-jer-thorp-the-weight-of-data\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed: creativeapplicationsnet (CreativeApplications.Net)'>TEDxVancouver &#8211; Jer Thorp (@blprnt ) &#8211; The Weight of Data | CreativeApplications.Net<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>In case you\u2019ve never seen or heard our dear friend and guest writer Jer Thorp speak on stage, this is a simple must. His talk from TEDxVancouver\u00a0last November is finally online. Jer talks about\u00a0the summer of 1985, when his father came home with a classic Mac. Loaded on that machine was a revolutionary program called HyperCard, which for him (and thousands of others) opened a door to expressivity through programming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jer\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/mac\/the-hypercard-legacy-theory-mac\/\" target=\"_blank\">post on CAN<\/a>\u00a0from September 2009 forms the basis of his recent talks, looking at the\u00a0HyperCard history,\u00a0a tool for making tools, once a legacy for Apple.<\/p>\n<p>For those that do not know Jer,\u00a0he is a generative software artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. A former geneticist, his work\u00a0<em>explores the boundaries between science, mathematics, and art using custom-written computer programs<\/em>. Thorp is currently Data Artist-in-Residence at The New York Times, the first Artist-in-Residence at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) of NYU, and a contributing editor for Wired UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEDxVancouver &#8211; Jer Thorp (@blprnt ) &#8211; The Weight of Data | CreativeApplications.Net In case you\u2019ve never seen or heard our dear friend and guest writer Jer Thorp speak on stage, this is a simple must. His talk from TEDxVancouver\u00a0last November is finally online. Jer talks about\u00a0the summer of 1985, when his father came home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9I8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}