Street View Supermarket

Liat Berdugo - Street View Supermarket

Google Street View uses an algorithm to automatically blur out people's faces.  What would it look like if they blurred out the faces of supermarket products?

May 2012

Sleep

Liat Berdugo - Sleep

When in 'sleep' mode, the indicator lights on Macs glow rhythmically. Sleep transforms this behavior into light for projection, rendering the computer a glorified, overpriced flashlight.

April 2012

Switch

Liat Berdugo - Switch

A body of 20 videos that explore the ambiguous rift between the digital and the analog, where notions of reality and illusion overlap with each other equivocally and strangely.

February 2012

Loading…

Liat Berdugo - Loading…

Loading... is a series of transitional objects that are activated when your browser detects that you're waiting for content to load on the Internet.

December 2011

Jellography

Liat Berdugo - Jellography

A fascination with edible text led to this project, in which words and letters were constructed out of Jell-O, both physically and subsequently programmatically.

October 2011

Gaming Destination Site

Liat Berdugo - Gaming Destination Site

Most social games are played on networks like Facebook or Myspace. In this project, we took our game City of Wonder off of Facebook and put it on its own dedicated 'destination' site.

December 2010

User Testing

Liat Berdugo - User Testing

As the lead games researcher for a number of game studios, I facilitated over fifty hours of user testing on pre-release and released products.

November 2010

@missioncatcalls

Liat Berdugo - @missioncatcalls

The Mission district of San Francisco is a fantastic neighborhood, but one rife with cat calling. What's a person to do with all these gratuitous cat calls?

November 2010

The .GIFing Tree

Liat Berdugo - The .GIFing Tree

A tumblr-blog devoted to a playful love of the animated gif, and it's seizure-inducing, low-fi delight.

November 2010

Monday Cartoon

Liat Berdugo - Monday Cartoon

Mondays at the office mean overflowing in-boxes and awkward conversations. I capture these with a series that I call the Monday Cartoon.

October 2010

Playdom.com Redesign

Liat Berdugo - Playdom.com Redesign

More than just a site redesign, this project provided a cohesive site architecture, and a way to browse game offerings before playing.

September 2010

Playdom Mobile

Liat Berdugo - Playdom Mobile

I worked with the mobile team at a social gaming company to develop a complete set of use cases for a complex mobile product and its interface points with an existing web game.

July 2010

PlaydomGear

Liat Berdugo - PlaydomGear

I developed information architecture and a compelling landing page design for Playdom's  new online storefront, aimed at selling branded gear.

January 2010

Art Fans

Liat Berdugo - Art Fans

A project to turn 20 white fans into whimsical art pieces. Fans were then distributed at an art festival in the Nevada desert.

August 2009

Visualization Tool

Liat Berdugo - Visualization Tool

A software analysis tool for biostatisticians to understand the availability of data during an adaptive clinical trial as a consequence of recruitment mates.

April 2009

Dinner Theater

Liat Berdugo - Dinner Theater

A narrative fiction told through a theater seating chart -- both in print and as a flash animation work -- about performances.

May 2008

Everyday Maths

Liat Berdugo - Everyday Maths

A poetic exploration of mathematical diagrams, inspired by textbooks I studied for my mathematics degree.

May 2008

In Case of Emergency

Liat Berdugo - In Case of Emergency

Emergency exit announcements have become standard on airplanes, in theaters, on trains, and in many other contexts. This video asks, "What do we consider an emergency situation?"

March 2008

This World, a Children’s Book

Liat Berdugo - This World, a Children’s Book

A narrated, illustrated children’s book about things one would never tell a child, where children’s toys are placed in cityscapes, highways, and crossroads.

December 2007

Factor Tree

Liat Berdugo - Factor Tree

Factor Tree is a textual and typographical representation of the properties of unique factorization. How might we factor a number into words rather than into unique primes?

November 2007
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what is digikitsch? it's my term for digital kitsch: for pieces of net art that are flashy and delightfully reproducible due to their digital birth.