demetrie tyler

So sometimes I get lost on the internet (like, I just follow links and half an hour later end up thinking "how did I get here?!"). Anyway, as a result of a recent session of that, I found this guy, demetrie tyler. He's an ITP graduate (Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program) and he currently has a piece in the MoMA show Design and the Elastic Mind. It's called Hypothetical Drawings About the End of the World.

From his page about the piece:

"This software looks for conversational language on the web based on a search query and generates large-format social landscapes using a set of programmatic drawing assets."

I think that means he wrote a program that makes a drawing, and based on the videos on his homepage I think a machine makes the drawing (check that out here).

I also found this video of a talk he gave on the drawings.