Paste

Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg
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Whatever is in your clipboard, something that's on your mind or just a distraction, you Paste. Paste keeps track of everyone's ctrl-V, option-V or middle-button press-- these routine actions combine into a single text stream. Paste collects both trivial and profound thoughts creating a continuous scroll. The minutia of collective consciousness forms a shared narrative. A narrative that reflects personal and public history - from the horrors of war to a recipe for mashed potatoes. When you enter the site, you paste whatever is in your clipboard. The very act of pasting makes visible a traditionally unseen layer of information. What you had there may sometimes surprise you, sometimes it could be quite deliberate.

Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg Bios
Marek Walczak is an artist and architect who is interested in how people participate in phsycial and virtual spaces. This has led to digital tools and interactive projects such as Apartment which was shown at the Whitney Museum and many venues worldwide. Dialog Table has recently been completed for the Walker Art Center, it is a shared interface that replaces a keyboard and mouse with gesture recognition technology. Current projects bridge physical installations with user interaction, including a one block long facade at 7 World Trade Center that reacts to pedestrians walking beneath it (for James Carpenter Design) and video installations that activate physical space based on user engagement such as Third Person, recently shown at the ICA, London. Marek trained as an architect at the Architectural Assoc. in London and Cooper Union in New York.

Martin Wattenberg's work centers on the theme of making the invisible visible. Past projects include The Shape of Song, Third Person, the Whitney Artport's Idea Line, and Apartment. Wattenberg is a researcher at IBM, where he creates new forms of data visualization. He is also known for the SmartMoney.com Map of the Market. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.