Tahir Hemphill
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MoMA Exhibit
Talk to Me
This tool for research and interpretation illuminates the music’s technical details, such as metaphors, rhyme style, and frequency of polysyllabic words. Any term can be searched, and the results are an exhaustive list of songs in which that term appears, along with complete lyrics, artist, location, syllable count, average syllables per word, and literary sophistication (determined by Flesch and SMOG scores, readability rubrics designed to measure ease of comprehension). Hip-Hop Word Count also converts the data into interactive visualizations that graph and connect on parallel lines. Users can select ranges in any category and see how, for example, Jay-Z’s shorter songs fare in terms of syllable count and sophistication. Hemphill notes that Hip-Hop Word Count, by assigning time and place to elements such as cultural and sociopolitical references, can be used “to chart the migration of ideas and map a geography of language.”
Talk to Me
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Hip-Hop Word Count
This tool for research and interpretation illuminates the music’s technical details, such as metaphors, rhyme style, and frequency of polysyllabic words. Any term can be searched, and the results are an exhaustive list of songs in which that term appears, along with complete lyrics, artist, location, syllable count, average syllables per word, and literary sophistication (determined by Flesch and SMOG scores, readability rubrics designed to measure ease of comprehension). Hip-Hop Word Count also converts the data into interactive visualizations that graph and connect on parallel lines. Users can select ranges in any category and see how, for example, Jay-Z’s shorter songs fare in terms of syllable count and sophistication. Hemphill notes that Hip-Hop Word Count, by assigning time and place to elements such as cultural and sociopolitical references, can be used “to chart the migration of ideas and map a geography of language.”
Talk to Me explores the communication between people and things. All objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use or appearance. In some cases, objects like cell phones and computers exist to provide us with access to complex systems and networks, behaving as gateways and interpreters. Whether openly and actively, or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us, and designers help us develop and improvise the dialogue.
The exhibition focuses on objects that involve a direct interaction, such as interfaces, information systems, visualization design, and communication devices, and on projects that establish an emotional, sensual, or intellectual connection with their users. Examples range from a few iconic products of the late 1960s to several projects currently in development—including computer and machine interfaces, websites, video games, devices and tools, furniture and physical products, and extending to installations and whole environments.
The Department of Architecture and Design is documenting the process of organizing Talk to Me from its early stages through its opening in July 2011 and beyond via an online journal. The site features projects we are currently studying and some we have already selected, along with relevant references and feedback and suggestions from designers and writers. Since we always cast our nets very wide and count on suggestions and opinions from the design community, this step comes very naturally. Besides, communication is what this exhibition is all about.
Visit the online journal at wp.moma.org/talk_to_me/The exhibition focuses on objects that involve a direct interaction, such as interfaces, information systems, visualization design, and communication devices, and on projects that establish an emotional, sensual, or intellectual connection with their users. Examples range from a few iconic products of the late 1960s to several projects currently in development—including computer and machine interfaces, websites, video games, devices and tools, furniture and physical products, and extending to installations and whole environments.
The Department of Architecture and Design is documenting the process of organizing Talk to Me from its early stages through its opening in July 2011 and beyond via an online journal. The site features projects we are currently studying and some we have already selected, along with relevant references and feedback and suggestions from designers and writers. Since we always cast our nets very wide and count on suggestions and opinions from the design community, this step comes very naturally. Besides, communication is what this exhibition is all about.
July 24- November 7, 2011
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