Laura Macchini - WHAT assignment

TUMBLRSAURUS 1
Tumblsaurus is a web application that allows to browse tumblr in a semantic-associative way. Given a keyword, it will look up four related words (synonims or words used in the same context) and display the latest tumblr image results for that topic. 
It is then possible to feed it a new word, a topic, or an object or browse through the images themselves: clicking on an image corresponds to typing in the word that corresponds to the image.
Clicking on an image though doesn't result in showing the associated keyword and can generate an uncanny effect of semantic-association; also titles or keywords associated with tumblr images often do not match the actual content of the picture- that also generate interesting visual results.

TUMBLRSAURUS 2
The second version of Tumblrsaurus is (again) a web application, it allows to visually represent the relationship between a given user and the users with whom he has interacted the most, in a sense the "most similar users".
Typing a username results in a visualization of his the last ten pictures he submitted and the last ten pictures of his most similar users.
The interaction is measured through the shared items in the collections of two users, the more they have in common the more likely it is going to be that the rest of their collection is similar.

REPETITA IUVANT
Repetita Iuvant is an interactive installation: it consists of two computers on a desk. The first computer allows the user to listen to / read a converation; the second computer allows to select a passage of that conversation and reenact it, speaking into a microphone.
The conversation is audible in Italian, although it is possible to have either italian or english subtitles. The topic of the conversation is a party that girl A attended, as it turned out to be not quite what she was expecting she calls girl B and tells her all about it.
More on the subject of the party, girl A says that she was expecting to go to "a dinner with the prime minister" and on the contrary she saw awfully vulgar things going on; Girl A is in shock and she feels compelled to call a friend and share the burden of what she just witnessed.
Some of the expressions that Girl A uses in describing the scene form the list of sentences that it is possible to reenact with the second computer.
The second computer has a microphone and headphones, it is possible to select a sentence, hear it spoken in Italian and try to repeat it.
The voice of those who reenacted the sentences on the second computer is immediately mixed with the original voices, and will be heard on the first computer.
It is also possible to isolate the "mixed voices" sentences on the first computer, and listen only to them.