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Rayyane Tabet: Becoming American
Becoming American is a project for the 2022 Whitney Biennial that includes a technical intervention across all of whitney.org, where visitors are prompted with questions from the US citizenship test.
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Stepping into open access
On releasing the Whitney Museum’s first open access dataset…
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Sunrise/Sunset and letting artists take over the museum
Blog post about Sunrise/Sunset, and letting artists do what they want with whitney.org.
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michaelbot.website
Q: what is michaelbot?
A: square adjust placement and save each one alone or something Holy cow I love it(michaelbot is a TensorFlow ML model served by Flask, trained on texts parsed from iMessage, that crashes a lot on an undersized server)
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Relaunching the Whitney’s Online Collection…again
Blog post about updating the API that feeds the Whitney’s online collection.
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QR Codes: Alive and Well in the Museum?
Blog post about the Whitney Museum’s use of QR codes as an entry point into interpretive materials.
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Relaunching Softly: the Whitney’s Online Collection
Blog post about developing and quietly launching a new and improved version of the Whitney’s online collection.
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The Whitney’s Mobile Guide
Blog post written by Sofie Andersen on a Progressive Web App we developed to replace our existing audio guides, and align the online experience with the in-person one.
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Dimensions of Museum Data
Blog post on Whitney Digital covering some of the ways we look at our online exhibition data, and single question surveys.
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Understanding our audiences: The Whitney’s Website Visitor Survey and its broader context
I was part of a presentation at MCN 2018 on a visitor motivation survey (VMS) we ran on whitney.org. As a group we covered the context of motivation-based surveys at museums and some key learnings for the Whitney, both in results and in strategy.
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Answering the question “what’s on today?”
Blog post on Whitney Digital that discusses the design and development process for a feature aimed at giving users an at-a-glance view of what’s going on at the museum.
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Experimenting with what works
Blog post on Whitney Digital about A/B testing and experimentation around whitney.org.
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How Many Hoppers?
An up to date count of the number of works by Edward Hopper currently on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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1/1/2015 — 10/5/2016
An animated mapping exploration of the Washington Post’s fatal police shooting dataset. Locations are geocoded through the Google Maps API, and build up a familiar image of the United States.
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“Hey could you give me the numbers on that again?”
Blog post on Digital @ MoMA about my time with The Museum of Modern Art, working on a data analytics, data collection, and dashboard creation project.
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Neuron
Mixed media enlargement of an imagined neuron, incorporating generative audio and video, projection mapping with Kinect and OpenCV, chicken wire, stainless steel, and acrylic.
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Recursion lesson & survey
An experiment in teaching about the concept of recursion to new audiences using an animated Sierpinski triangle. Learners read a brief sequence of paragraphs describing recursion while the animation played alongside, then answered a brief survey on the topic.
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Spheres II
Continued exploration of deconstructing spheres, limited color, galaxy-inspired movements and shapes, and generative growth.
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Whitney Teens Open Studio sign in
A smarter sign in form for Whitney Museum teen events. Parses acronyms and commonly mis-entered information, aggregates data, and pushes it to a central Google Sheet.
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Deconstructing Shells II
Early exploration of deconstructing spheres, galaxy-inspired movements and shapes, and generative growth.
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Artistic development of children
Essay on artistic development presented alongside an animation of children developing the discussed skills.
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Fingers
An experiment in translating a piece of the human form into digital code.
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Point White Guest House
A website and photography for a rentable cottage on Bainbridge Island, built on WordPress.
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Renton Area Youth & Family Services
A new website for Renton Area Youth & Family Services, incorporating responsive design, client interviews, and new photography.