Noah Levenson

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Noah Levenson (born 1981) is an American computer programmer and the creator of Stealing Ur Feelings , an interactive project that won Mozilla's $50,000 prize for art and advocacy exploring artificial intelligence. [1] Stealing Ur Feelings won the 2020 Webby Award in the category of Immersive And Mixed Reality. [2]

Career

In 2017, Levenson created Weird Box, an interactive project about social media privacy that was featured in Fast Company [3] and SFist. [4]

In 2018, he created Stealing Ur Feelings, a web-based augmented reality experience that was awarded Mozilla's $50,000 prize for art and advocacy exploring artificial intelligence. The project explores the dangers of facial emotion recognition AI in consumer applications. [5] It was executive produced by Brett Gaylor, director of Do Not Track .

Stealing Ur Feelings premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival [6] and was an official selection of the Camden International Film Festival [7] and Montreal International Documentary Festival. [8]

Levenson's work has been the subject of articles in Scientific American, [9] Engadget, [10] and El Pais. [11] He has been interviewed about artificial intelligence and corporate practices for Report on Rai3 [12] and CBC Radio One. [13]

He has written about the internet and meme culture for the NY Daily News. [14]

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  2. ↑ "People's Voice Winner". Webby Awards. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  3. ↑ Berkowitz, Joe (2017-06-23). "Your Instagram Photos Star In This Funny (And Creepy) Short Film". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  4. ↑ "Strangely Fascinating Website Makes Your Instagram Account The Star Of Odd Video: SFist". SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports. 2017-06-29. Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  5. ↑ "Stealing Ur Feelings". MIT - Docubase. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  6. ↑ "More than Meets the Eye: Announcing the Tribeca Immersive Lineup at Tribeca 2019". Tribeca. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
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  10. ↑ "An AR film explores the worst tech companies could do with your face". Engadget. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  11. ↑ Martínez, Héctor Llanos (2020-01-15). "Activa tu cámara si quieres ser protagonista de este documental interactivo". El País (in Spanish). ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  12. ↑ "App-arenze - Report". Rai Report (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  13. ↑ "Stealing Ur Feelings". Let's Go with Sabrina Marandola. November 15, 2019.
  14. ↑ Levenson, Noah. "Is this the meme singularity? What the Kanye West-Donald Trump Oval Office meet says about us all". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
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