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Presented online at panel on "Al-Sha’ab Yureed" (The People Demand): Transmitting the Revolution" on 26 June 2011. For more information at VJ Um Amel, R-Shief, and her recent work on the Arab Spring, see recent reviews and media coverage: VJ Um Amel hits ‘the social’ in media | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt by Lina Attalah, Digital Learning and the Arab Spring | DMLcentral by Liz Losh, Interview with VJ Um Amel by Youmna Chlala in Art…
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This is a video of a data visualization published Feb 12, 2011. It is a running applet of all the tweets on #Egypt that were posted to Twitter the day Hosni Mubarak resigned as president of Egypt. The hashmap presented here offers a sentiment analysis and is intended to be evocative. It was designed to have a more database poetic (and less narrative) meaning to express. See http://r-shief.org
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For well over 30 years, (President) Hosni Mubarak has ruled Egypt under martial law for most of that time. On #Jan25, 2011 the Egyptian people had enough (kafayah, ba'a!)This database narrative brings images and sounds from Egypt's past - Anwar Sadat, Oum Kalthoum, King Farouk, and mixes it with live feed from Twitter postings on #Jan25, the images of well-known cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, and a mixture of YouTube videos posted by the people of Egypt…
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This info vid below is a good example of what how computers can run semantic analytics on a set of strings (words), an interactive experience that demonstrates how a database narrative might express meaning through recombinant and indexical instantiations. See http://r-shief.org
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This piece came together over the course of a week when a crew of DC Guerrilla Poets reunited in LA in January 2011. Feather Angels is a poetic remix inspired by the progressive beats of Berlin based DJ, Chris-A-Nova. Thank you to Chris for letting me use this piece. Also, much gratitude to Jessica Philie for writing the lyrics and staying an extra day to record her vocals in the studio. -VJ Um Amel A Poetic Remix, 2011, http://vjumamel.com
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