Research Statement:
I am interested in algorithms for mining and managing data in large-scale, distributed databases, in particular, the web. I am especially interested in:
- Personalization of search and information management.
- Probabilistic Models in Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, and Supervised and Unsupervised Learning.
- Numerical Linear Algebra, and its use in devising efficient algorithms for information management and knowledge discovery in a probabilistic framework.
Artist statement:
Over the past few years, the internet has become a platform for self-expression. Through utilities such as blogs and social networks, people have the ability to express themselves more publicly and more lastingly than ever before. The words and pictures that people leave on the web asthey communicate their daily thoughts and emotions is an opportunity for artists to create mosaics of humanity, to explore aspects of human nature through the eyes of millions of everyday people.
The web offers a second opportunity for artists, and that is as a new medium for art. Historically, the early uses of any new media have been primarily utilitarian, and it is not until later that they have been adopted by the arts -- photography, for example, was popularized by portraiture. The web is no different. It's history as a medium has largely been an information and communication-based medium and not as an art medium. As an art medium, it provides three properties that previous media do not -- accessibility, dynamicism, and interactivity. A work of art on the web can reach millions of people daily, has the ability to constantly change, and can interact with its audience in a more tangible way than other media, even to the point of allowing its audience to easily contribute to the art piece itself.
These two opportunities -- the web as an information source for humanity, and the web as an accessible, dynamic, and interactive medium -- are the basis for my work. I seek to explore human nature through the lens of the web, and to use the web as well as other accessible media such as clothing or the street, as the frame for this exploration.
Sep Kamvar
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Love Lines
Not About Me |
Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris
From
2006
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