Scott Fitzgerald

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Scott Fitzgerald is an artist and educator working with emerging technologies. He is the co-Director of NYU Tandon's Integrated Digital Media program and working towards a PhD at SUNY Buffalo's Department of Media Study. He's also partner at lightband Studios, creating bespoke glass and dynamic lighting installations. Previously, Scott worked on documentation for the Arduino platform and was the founding head for NYU Abu Dhabi's Interactive Media program.

Exhibiting

Mac Check

What happens when networked objects achieve true intelligence and can learn on their own? What systems would they start to circumvent and what would they discuss? Mac Check imagines a scenario with a group of devices that throw out DNS as a hierarchical method of control and decide through consensus what their names should be. The imagined conversations and decision making around their names is displayed on small OLED screens attached to ESP8266 devices on their own mesh network. multicast communication and group decision making is highlighted as the devices talk about their emotional states, aspirations, and day-to-day jobs.