Jonathan Harris (artist)

Harris is the co-creator (with Sep Kamvar) of We Feel Fine, a search engine for human emotions.{{Cite web |title=We Feel Fine / mission |url=http://wefeelfine.org/mission.html |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=wefeelfine.org}}{{Cite web |last=Popova |first=Maria |date=2009-12-03 |title=We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion |url=https://www.themarginalian.org/2009/12/03/we-feel-fine-book/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=The Marginalian |language=en-US}} The project was named by AIGA one of the most influential design works of the last century, and later became a book (We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion) published by Scribner in 2009.{{Cite web |date=2016-03-29 |title=We Feel Fine {{!}} AIGA 100 Years of Design |url=http://celebratedesign.org/connect/community/key-artifact/we-feel-fine |access-date=2023-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329115519/http://celebratedesign.org/connect/community/key-artifact/we-feel-fine |archive-date=March 29, 2016 }}{{Cite book |last1=Kamvar |first1=Sep |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lz5U6zbGX3wC |title=We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion |last2=Harris |first2=Jonathan |date=2009-12-01 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4391-1683-8 |language=en}}

In 2006, Harris was commissioned by Yahoo! to create the Yahoo! Time Capsule, which sought to record a digital fingerprint of the world at that time.{{Cite web |date=2014-10-10 |title=Reflections on the Time Capsule - Yahoo |url=http://yodel.yahoo.com/blogs/general/reflections-time-capsule-188.html |access-date=2023-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010071013/http://yodel.yahoo.com/blogs/general/reflections-time-capsule-188.html |archive-date=October 10, 2014 }}{{Cite news |last=Schofield |first=Jack |date=2006-10-19 |title=The time capsule, after 10 x 10 |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/oct/19/thetimecapsul |access-date=2023-12-21 |issn=0261-3077}} In 2007, he spent two weeks living with an Iñupiat Eskimo family during their traditional spring whale hunt in Utqiagvik, Alaska (formerly Barrow), producing the interactive documentary, The Whale Hunt.{{Cite web |title=The Whale Hunt / by Jonathan Harris / Statement |url=https://thewhalehunt.org/statement.html |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=thewhalehunt.org}}{{Cite web |date=2007-12-10 |title=The Whale Hunt: New work from Jonathan Harris {{!}} TED Blog |url=https://blog.ted.com/the_whale_hunt/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Wallace |first=Jacqueline |year=2011 |title=Digitizing North: A Critical Discussion of Jonathan Harris's The Whale Hunt |journal=Design and Culture |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=355–373 |doi=10.2752/175470811X13071166525379 |s2cid=192146201}} In 2008, he and Kamvar were commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art to create the interactive installation, I Want You To Want Me, visualizing thousands of online dating profiles as colorful balloons.{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Jennifer 8 |date=2007-12-20 |title=Turn-Ons Include Museums and Gmail. Turn-Offs Are Liars. |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/turn-ons-include-museums-and-gmail-turn-offs-are-liars/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=The New York Times, City Room |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Popova |first=Maria |date=2008-11-03 |title=Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art |url=https://www.themarginalian.org/2008/11/03/jonathan-harris-i-want-you-to-want-me/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=The Marginalian |language=en-US}} The project was installed at the museum on Valentine's Day 2008.{{Cite web |title=I Want You To Want Me / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar / Statement |url=https://iwantyoutowantme.org/statement.html |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=iwantyoutowantme.org}}

In 2011, Harris released Cowbird, a free digital storytelling platform with the mission of creating a "public library of human experience."{{Cite web |last=Preston |first=Jennifer |date=2012-02-19 |title=Pull Up a Mouse and Stay a While |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/pull-up-a-mouse-and-stay-a-while/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=The New York Times, Media Decoder Blog |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Griffiths |first=Daniel Nye |title=Cowbird: Facebook Stories' Launch Recalls An Artistic Storytelling Project |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/08/09/cowbird-facebook-stories-launch-recalls-an-artistic-storytelling-project/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Forbes |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=McCracken |first=Harry |date=2012-09-15 |title=Check out Cowbird on TIME's 50 Best Websites list |language=en-US |work=Time Magazine |url=https://techland.time.com/2012/09/18/50-best-websites-2012/slide/cowbird/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |issn=0040-781X}} The project was active until 2017, when it was closed due to "growing awareness" of "attention economies and screen addiction."{{Cite web |last=Cowbird |title=Cowbird |url=https://cowbird.com/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Cowbird}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=A Witness to Life |url=https://infragments.us/a-witness-to-life |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=In Fragments |language=en-US}}

From 2015–2021, Harris worked on a series of personal rituals at High Acres Farm, his family's ancestral land in Shelburne, Vermont—ultimately producing a set of 21 short films, released in 2022 as In Fragments.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=In Fragments – An exploration of Life Art |url=https://infragments.us/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=In Fragments |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=High Acres Farm — Arts |url=https://highacresfarm.org/arts |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=High Acres Farm |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=From roaring fire and molten glass an artist creates a healing ritual {{!}} Aeon Videos |url=https://aeon.co/videos/from-roaring-fire-and-molten-glass-an-artist-creates-a-healing-ritual |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Aeon |language=en}}

Harris attended St. Bernard's School in New York City and Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. He received his BA in computer science from Princeton University, where he studied with Brian Kernighan and Emmet Gowin.{{Cite web |title=Pioneer Works, Jonathan Harris |url=https://pioneerworks.org/residency/jonathan-harris |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Jonathan Harris}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Jonathan Jennings Harris |url=https://infragments.us/person/jonathan-jennings-harris |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=In Fragments |language=en-US}} He also received a fellowship at the Fabrica Research Center in Italy.{{Cite web |date=2009-11-09 |title=b l o g . F A B R I C A: Interview with Jonathan Harris, Artist, ex-Fabricante |url=http://2005to2007.fabrica.it/blog/2006/06/jonathan_harris_artist_exfabri.html |access-date=2023-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091109000339/http://2005to2007.fabrica.it/blog/2006/06/jonathan_harris_artist_exfabri.html |archive-date=November 9, 2009 }}{{Cite web |date=2014-07-15 |title=Jonathan Harris on The Great Discontent (TGD) |url=https://thegreatdiscontent.com/interview/jonathan-harris/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=The Great Discontent (TGD) |language=en-US}}

Harris was named a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum in 2009.{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Harris |url=https://www.weforum.org/people/jonathan-harris/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=World Economic Forum |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Harris |url=https://bigthink.com/people/jonathanharris2/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Big Think |language=en-US}} His projects have been widely exhibited around the world, and are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=News |url=https://jjh.org/news/exhibitions |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Jonathan Jennings Harris |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Harris |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/33156 |website=Museum of Modern Art}}{{Cite web |title=Works {{!}} Jonathan Harris {{!}} People {{!}} The MFAH Collections |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/29587/jonathan-harris/objects |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=emuseum.mfah.org}} In 2017, he was the Guest of Honor at the IDFA Film Festival in Amsterdam, where he offered a Master Talk summarizing his life and work.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-09-21 |title=IDFA Institute {{!}} Digital art pioneer Jonathan Harris to compile Top 10 |url=https://www.idfa.nl/en/news/digital-art-pioneer-jonathan-harris-to-compile-top-10/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=IDFA |language=en}}{{Citation |title=IDFA 2017 {{!}} Master Talk: Jonathan Harris |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPRHiKol-ps |access-date=2023-12-21 |language=en}}

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• [https://www.jjh.org/ jjh.org (Official website)]
• [https://infragments.us In Fragments website]
• [http://wefeelfine.org We Feel Fine website]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPRHiKol-ps Jonathan Harris IDFA Master Talk]
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• {{TED talk|jonathan_harris_tells_the_web_s_secret_stories|The Web's Secret Stories}} (TED2007)
• {{TED talk|jonathan_harris_collects_stories|The Web as Art}} (TED2007)

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