In 2015, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “YouTube Smash Up” by Parag K. Mital (Computer Animation) with a Honorary Mention. Parag K. Mital has 1 more work in this atlas.
*YouTube Smash Up* attempts to generatively produce viral content using video material from the Top Ten most viewed videos on YouTube. Each week, the Number One video of the week is resynthesized using a computational algorithm matching its sonic and visual content to material only from the remaining Top Ten videos.
About Parag K. Mital
Parag K. Mital (US) is an artist and interdisciplinary researcher obsessed with the nature of information, representation and attention. Using film, eye-tracking, EEG, and fMRI recordings, he has worked on computational models of audiovisual perception from…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.