The Work of Jonathan Harris

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The Web's Secret Stories
TED - Mar 2007

Dreaming in Code
Metropolis - Jun 2007

Human feelings on the web
Reuters - Apr 2007

Coolhunting interview
Coolhunting - Mar 2007

Menu: Awards | Exhibitions & Lectures | Press & Interviews

Awards

2008

Tokyo Type Directors Club - Winner, Interactive Design Prize (The Whale Hunt)
PRINT Magazine - Winner, New Visual Artists

Creativity Magazine - Winner, Creativity Top 50
ID Magazine Annual Design Review - Honorable Mention, Interactive (The Whale Hunt)

2007

Webby Award - Nomineee, Net Art (We Feel Fine)
Webby Award - Nomineee, Visual Design / Aesthetic (We Feel Fine)
Webby Award - Nominee, Structure / Navigation (We Feel Fine)

2006

Pixel Award - Winner, Weird Category (We Feel Fine)
Pixel Award - Runner-up, Best in show (We Feel Fine)
Webby Award - Nomineee, Structure and Navigation (Phylotaxis)
Webby Award - Nomineee, Net Art (justcurio.us)
Yahoo - Pick of the Day (We Feel Fine)

Yahoo - Pick of the Day (Lovelines)

2005

Yahoo! - Pick of the Day (Phylotaxis)
Webby Award - Winner, People's Voice, Arts (WordCount)
Webby Award - Winner, Structure and Navigation (10x10)
Prix Ars Electronica - Honarable Mention, Net Vision (10x10)
Flash Forward - Winner, Technical Merit (10x10)
ID Annual Design Review - Honarable Mention, Interactive Art (10x10)
HOW Magazine Interactive Design Awards - Merit (10x10)
FABRICA - Honarary Fellow
Yahoo! - Pick of the Day (Understanding Vorn)
PC Magazine - Top 100 Website of 2005 (WordCount)
Favorite Website Award - Pick of the Day (10x10)

2004

FABRICA - Research Fellow - Treviso, Italy
Yahoo! - Pick of the Day (10x10)

2003

AIGA Design Awards - Winner, Information Design (WordCount)

2002

American Associated Collegiate Press - Leader of the Student Press in America (for Troubadour Magazine)

1999

Vermont State Quarter Design - One of 5 finalists from over 800 contestants

Exhibitions & Lectures

2008

The Museum of Modern Art - NYC - I Want You To Want Me commissioned for Design and the Elastic Mind show
World Science Festival
- New York, NY - speaker
Tokyo Type Directors Club - Tokyo, Japan - speaker

Grafill - Oslo, Norway - speaker
Gultaggen - Oslo, Norway - speaker
ITP - New York, NY - speaker
PHTHRD - New York, NY - competitor
Apple / AIGA - SoHO Apple Store - New York, NY - speaker
Princeton Design Conference - Princeton University - Princeton, NJ - speaker
Intermedia Arts - W(e are) here - Minneapolis, MN - We Feel Fine exhibited

2007

E.G. Conference - Los Angeles, CA - speaker
Singapore Design Festival - Singapore - speaker
OFFF Festival - New York City - speaker
IEEE InfoVis 2007 - Sacramento, CA - We Feel Fine exhibited
Pop!Tech - Camden, Maine - speaker - talk
Montevideo Gallery - Video Vortex exhibit - Amsterdam, Netherlands - We Feel Fine exhibited
Picnic
- Amsterdam, Netherlands - speaker - talk
William De Kooning Academy - Rotterdam, Netherlands - speaker
The Vanguard Group - Lecture on "Humanizing the Web" - Barcelona, Spain
The Creators Series - We Feel Fine and Universe exhibited - organized by Tomorrow Unlimited
Kabk (Royal Academy of Art) - lecture organized by TAG, with David Reinfurt - The Hague, The Netherlands
TED Conference - Lecture on "The Web's Secret Stories" - Monteray, California
MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) - Lecture during SEED / MoMA Art and Science Salon - New York, NY
National Academy of Sciences - "Virtually You: Internet Art and Culture" - lecture at the Koshland Museum of Science - Washington, D.C.

2006

Triad Gallery - We Feel Fine exhibited in Fabrica group show - I've Been Waiting for You - Seoul, South Korea
Centre Pompidou - 10x10 West, 10x10 East and 10x10 Middle East exhibited in Fabrica group show - Les Yeux Ouverts - Paris, France
GenArt - We Feel Fine exhibited - Prague, Czech Republic
Inspiration Festival - Presentation of my work - New York, NY

The Gathering - Talk on We Feel Fine - Brooklyn, NY

OFFF Barcelona - Presentation at OFFF Barcelona Design Festival - Barcelona, Spain
Processing - Online Exhibition
Syracuse University - Lecture to Art & Design students- Syracuse, New York
Deerfield Academy - Lecture to the senior class - Deerfield, Massachusetts
William Benton Museum of Art - 10x10 Installation - Storrs, Connecticut

2005

Parsons The New School for Design - Lecture to Technology & Design students - Manhattan, New York
Wolf+Lamb Marcy Hotel - Presentation of work - Brooklyn, New York
The Gathering - Talk on "The Global Brain" - Lenox, Massachusetts
Ars Electronica - Prix Retrospective - Linz, Austria
Sonar 2005, Datascapes - Barcelona, Spain
OneDotZero - In conjunction with United Visual Artists - London, England
Princeton University - Lecture to Art and Photography Students - Princeton, New Jersey
Stanford University - Lecture to Computer Science Graduate Students - Palo Alto, California
Hofstra University - Lecture to New Media Students - Hempstead, New York
Google - Talk on "Words, Pictures, and Spying on the Love Lives of Strangers" - Mountain View, California

2004

AIGA Annual Design Review - AIGA Gallery - New York City

Press & Interviews

2008

Adobe - Think Tank - Telling Stories Using Data - Interview - Mar
Creativity Magazine - included in the Creativity Top 50 - Mar
ID Magazine Annual Design Review - The Whale Hunt included
Page Magazine (Germany) - InfoDesign Interaktiv - Feature on The Whale Hunt - Mar
Wired - Frame that Spam: Data Crunching Artists Transform the World of Information - Profile - Feb
Wallpaper - Design and the Elastic Mind, Review - review of I Want You To Want Me - Mar
Business Week - Art Museum As Research Lab - review of I Want You To Want Me - Mar
Rhizome - Design and the Elastic Mind @ MoMA - review of I Want You To Want Me - Mar
TangoMag - With this bone, I thee wed - review of I Want You To Want Me - Mar
Information Aesthetics - I Want You To Want Me - review of I Want You To Want Me - Mar
VICE Magazine - Alaska: The Whale Hunt - interview about The Whale Hunt - Mar
PRINT Magazine - selected as a "New Visual Artist" - Feb
Bon Magazine (Sweden) - feature on The Whale Hunt - Feb

2007

New York Times - Turn-Ons Include Museums and Gmail. Turn-Offs Are Liars - review of IWYTWM - Dec
Good Magazine - Jonathan and the Whale - feature on The Whale Hunt - Dec
USA Today - 'The Whale Hunt' brings us new form of visual storytelling - profile of The Whale Hunt - Dec
Style.com - A Whale of a Time - interview about The Whale Hunt - Dec
BuzzFeed - Whale Hunt - profile of The Whale Hunt - Dec
Very Short List - Moby Dick 2.0 - profile of The Whale Hunt - Dec
Flak Photo - Photo of the day - featured photo from The Whale Hunt - Dec
Kuensel (Bhutan) - Balloons of Bhutan - feature on my Bhutan project - Dec
Fast Company Magazine
- Masters of Design Issue - Talent pool - Oct
Worldchanging - Podcast interview - with Jennifer Leonard - Sep 17
Eye Magazine - "So incredible that it almost brings me to tears" - review of We Feel Fine - summer issue
Metropolis - "Dreaming in Code" - Feature story about my work - Jun 2
Reuters - "Getting human feelings on the web" - TV interview about We Feel Fine - Apr 2
New York Magazine - The Approval Matrix - "The astonishing websites of Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar; We Feel Fine and Lovelines" - Mar 19
Coolhunting - Video Interview covering sketchbooks, We Feel Fine, Universe, and storytelling (5 mins) - Mar 16
SEED Magazine - Universe tops SEED Daily Zeitgeist - Mar 15
EDGE.org - "REVEALING OUR MODERN MYTHOLOGY" - Mar 14
CNET - "Site maps 'Universe' through constellation of news" - Feature story on Universe - Mar 13
Josh Spear - "Universe: Jonathan Harris" - Feature on Universe - Mar 13
Ethan Zuckerman - "Jonathan Harris and new constellations" - Coverage of my TED Talk - Mar 8
Lunch Over IP - "An artist gets news better than publishers" - Coverage of my TED Talk - Mar 8

2006

Kurt the Cyberguy - "I feel fine" - Interview - Nov 17
Inspiration Festival - "Interview with Jonathan Harris, Internet Anthropologist" - Interview - Nov 15
No Man's Blog - "10 Questions with Jonathan Harris" - Interview - Nov 13
Kurt the Cyberguy - "Earth-sized Time Capsule" - Interview - Nov 1
Yahoo! Time Capsule Blog - "An Interview with Jonathan Harris" - Interview - Oct 23
DIGG - "The Yahoo! Time Capsule: One World. Many Voices" - Oct 14
ABC World News - "Feature on the Time Capsule" - Oct 12
Slashdot - "Yahoo's Time Capsule Project" - Oct 10
Reuters - "Time capsule to be beamed from Mexican pyramid" - Oct 10
CNN - "The insider's guide to talking to aliens" - Oct 10
USA Today - "Yahoo starts digital time capsule" - Oct 10

Yahoo The 9 - "How are we feeling?" - Feature on We Feel Fine - July 27
NET Magazine - "The Brains Behind: We Feel Fine" - Interview about We Feel Fine - July 14
The New Statesman - "The Art of Feelings" - Feature on We Feel Fine - July 10
NPR / Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything - Interview about We Feel Fine - June 28
Fabrica - "Interview with Jonathan Harris, Artist, ex-Fabricante" - Interview - June 15
Time Out New York - "Blog Rolling" - Feature on my recent work, including We Feel Fine - June 15
Cool Hunting - "We Feel Fine" - May 31
DIGG - "We Feel Fine - the Internet has emotion apparently" - May 30
Josh Spear - "We Feel Fine" - May 30
Drawn - "How Do You Feel?" - Feature on my work - May 26
Adotas - "Feeling the Marketing Way" - Feature on my work - May 25
Newstoday - We Feel Fine featured - May 18
Spiegel (Germany) - "Netzwelt-Ticker" - May 16
Generator X (Norway) - "OFFF: We feel fine" - May 13
Playpen (Australia) - "Taking the emotional temperature of the world" - May 11
Information Aesthetics (Australia) - "We Feel Fine Visual Blog Emotions" - May 10
Information Aesthetics (Australia) - "Lovelines Visual Blog Emotions" - May 10
New York Arts Magazine - "Renaisance Man for the Information Age" - Interview - January 2

2005

Information Aesthetics (Australia) - " Phylotaxis" - Post on Phylotaxis - December 1
Visualmente (Argentina) - " La ciencia se mezcla con la cultura, en clave visual" - Feature on Phylotaxis - November 30
BBC Collective - "Interesting Information Access" - Feature on 10x10 and justcurio.us - November 17
Colby Echo - "Pop Art Reinvented: Harris Captures the Moment" - September 28
SOMA Magazine - Feature on 10x10 - August
HOW Magazine - Interactive Design Awards 2005 - August 22
The Washington Post - "The Style Invitational: WordCount" (scroll down) - August 14
Visualmente (Argentina) - " Sólo por curiosidad..." - Feature on justcurio.us - July 7
Voice of America Radio Our World - Interview - Download MP3 (5mb - starts at 9 mins, 30 secs). - July 2
Design Interact - "Thinking Art at Number 27" - June 22
BBC World - TV interview from the Webby Awards - June 16
PC Magazine - "Top 100 sites of 2005" - May 18
El Pais (Spain) - "Yahoo! cumple sus primeros 10 anos con una netrospective de Jonathan Harris" - March 24
Associated Content - "Design Your Success" - March 22
Information Aesthetics (Australia) - " WordCount" - Post on WordCount - March 15
Visualmente (Argentina) - " Understanding the Homo Sapiens" - Interview - March 14
TVSpy - Q+A interview - March 9
Visualmente (Argentina) - " Yahoo! celebra 10 años en Internet" - Feature on Yahoo! Netrospetive - March 2
Chicago Tribune - "Art created out of news -- every hour on the hour" - March 1
FAB Magazine (Italy) - Feature on 10x10 (PDF - 20MB) - February
Visualmente (Argentina) - " 100 palabras y 100 fotos por hora para definir al mundo" - Feature on 10x10 - February 25
Wired News - "A Fluid Look at the News" - February 22
Desktop Magazine (Australia) - Feature story - January 12
The Guardian (UK) - Web Watch - January 6
Photo District News Magazine - Feature story - January 1
Web Designing Magazine (Japan) - Feature on 10x10 - January
Contagious Magazine - Feature on 10x10 - January
MILK Magazine (Hong Kong) - Feature on 10x10 - January

2004

Vorn Magazine (Germany) - Commissioned Piece: Understanding Vorn - December
Information Aesthetics (Australia) - "10x10" - Post on 10x10 - December 15
CNN - Headline News Interview - November 19
USA Today - "10x10 Presents the News at a Glance" - November 19
Slashdot - "Tracking the English Words We Use" - September 20
Creative Review (London) - Pick of the Month (WordCount) - September 8
Voice of America Radio (Washington) - Interview - September 2
La Republica (Italy) - "Il mondo intero in cento parole E' 10x10, nuovo fenomeno web" on 10x10 - November 23
Reuters - Feature on 10x10 (Italian only) - December 2

2002

Princeton Alumni Weekly - "An Artist, Traveler, and Computer Geek" - June 5