Kinetech Arts has resumed its in-person open lab, now at 836M Gallery. It has been a remarkable and heart-warming experience for its participants. We can once again delve into the intersection of dance and technology through hands-on engagement in a real and tangible space.

The towering structure located in the upper right corner is the renowned Trans America building. In 1948, the site it now occupies was actually underwater. Montgomery Street served as the shoreline, and the location of the 836M Gallery was situated directly above the water.

Just around the corner, Pacific Ave between Montgomery and Kearny was once the hub of entertainment, teeming with dance halls and bars. Shanghaiing (a practice of drugging a young man, throw him aboard a ship sailing out to sea) was once a common practice.

For our project at 836M, we constructed a cymatic acrylic water tank - a 3'x6' acrylic box with a mirrored finish on the bottom. High-powered transducers were used to vibrate the water, creating standing waves. To our surprise, the vibrations caused the entire floor to shake, inspiring everyone in the room to lay down and experience the sensation. This serendipitous moment then naturally led to impromptu improvisations.

Continuing the tradition from the past three years, the lab also offers online participation. Jiara joined from Shanghai, as evidenced by the highway visible through her window in the collage. The bottom of the collage depicts individuals experimenting with the cymatic water tank

Lab will be back next Wednesday Feb 15th.

Kinetech Open Lab continues! As does Covid!

For any of you who don't know, Open Lab is an opportunity for artists, scientists, & enthusiasts from different backgrounds to experiment across the boundaries of technology and expression. Hosted by Kinetech Arts, this is a free event hosted each Wednesday (none on the last Wednesday of each month).

For today's lab, we explored the AI-powered 3d pose tracking – in the collaboration between Kineviz, Wei's company, and USF students.

USF graduate student Marisa Tania gave us a great presentation.

Right now, VR is super bulky and extremely limited. You've got the goggle stuff and two hand things. But that also kind of sucks because VR software can't pick up anything else about what any of your many limbs are doing aside from the two controllers in your hand.

That's why what this group is working on is so impressive – making interactive 3D motion capture sans wearables.

Stay up to date with more Open Lab hybrid-offline-online shenanigans by joining our meetup group here and come play and dance with us between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!

Another month, another last Wednesday... ANOTHER Y-EXCHANGE! We here at Kinetech Arts do love to co-host “Y-Exchange” alongside ODC Theater and The Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Y-Exchange is a series of presentations about performing arts, technology and science and how they intersect and inform each other. Every month, selected artists and scientists are invited to talk about their life and work. Since 2014, we have featured hundreds of artists and scientists from all over the world!

In this slightly-reopening-are-we-afraid-of-the-delta-variant-idk July, we featured Clara Hsu, a poet and playwright, alongside Tom Skalak, a bioengineer and science thriller writer.

Clara Hsu

Clara Hsu is a piano teacher, actor, poet and playwright. She is the director of Clarion Performing Arts Center. In 2019 Clara established Clarion Summer Theater. She produced Love on the Magpie Bridge to celebrate the Chinese Night of Sevens Festival. Her second play, The Piano, a Play-Movie was selected by the 2021 Children’s Film Festival Seattle. Her new play, Neil Armstrong at the Moon Palace will premiere at the end of this summer. Clara won the Jefferson Award for public service in May, 2021. Her latest work, the Gai Mou Sou Rap has gone viral on YouTube.

During the Y-Exchange, she gave us a detailing of her life story.

She had grown up around her family's instrument company – Clarion Music and only discovered writing and poetry at the age of 44. When she had to take care of ailing parents, she was honing her creative outlets.

She dove into poetry head first, and was not intimidated because she had spent a lot of time reading. And as soon as she began to write, it was like a dam opened for her and a lot of pent up artistic expression that had come from not having expressed her voice previously came out.

In 2016, after her father passed away, Clara bought Clarion Music again because she wanted to established a platform for poetry. While the community seemed not to be ready for a poetry performing arts center, Clara ended up playing a character in a play, then falling into playwriting. She then started a children's theatre.

Stay up to date with Clara Hsu through Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

Tom Skalak

Tom Skalak joined the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation in 2018 as Senior Advisor to Clara Wu Tsai. The Foundation makes philanthropic investments in science, economic mobility, and cultural production (art, music, film), with a vision to produce transformative impact on societal well-being and sustainability. Tom is Vice President for Research Emeritus at the University of Virginia and was previously the founding Executive Director of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group in Seattle, the Microsoft co-founder’s global science investing group. In these roles, Tom led creative synthesis of research and innovation programs spanning biosciences, environmental sustainability, physical sciences, engineering and technology, arts, design, and humanities. Tom was educated as a bioengineer at The Johns Hopkins University (B.E.S. 1979) and the University of California, San Diego (Ph.D. 1984), was a Resident Artist at the Djerassi Resident.

He spoke to us about his inspirations for his current sci-fi thriller novel, which he was working on as a Resident Artist at the Djerassi Resident.

Tom had grown up in New Jersey and made his way over to California.

Getting to interview Andy Weir, author of the Martian, was extremely interesting for Tom. Andy was very adamant about his novel being problem driven instead of driven by character growth. The main character of The Martian doesn't change at all during it, and Tom sought to do something similar in his novel – a problem driven novel.

If you're curious to explore more art or even to stay up to date with more future Y-Exchanges, feel free to join our meetup group here and pop on by between 7-8:15 PM Pacific time on any Wednesday!

Y-Exchange is Co-Presented by Kinetech Arts, ODC Theater and The Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

On this traffic-filled-because-USA-is-opening-up-because-we're-all-pretty-much-vaccinated-or-anti-vax-unfortunately day, Wei, Dai, Alex, and I (kat) were lucky enough to hang out in real life.

Alex had a new T-Rex stuffed animal that also made an appearance at Open Lab.

We went through some pictures from Wei and Dai's trip... the dinosaur was very interested.

Zach. Artist.

Then Zach shared some art with us. He spends a lot of time on his personal beach so he first shared a short video that he made of himself where he did some time wizardry on the beach, set to Phillip Glass.

But then we got to see this Sand Globes project of his, where people make sand globes!

Since discovering a technique for making near-perfect spheres from just sand and water in 2000, I've used sand globe making in this project to connect people with each other and with coastal areas. I've spread sand globe making worldwide using social media #sandglobes and #sandglobe – Zach Pine

If you're curious about his other work, it's here: www.zpcreatewithnature.com

Meanwhile, hybrid-online-offline open lab shenanigans ensue.

Some Dai Fan Art and Paparazzi

The End.

Stay up to date with more Open Lab hybrid-offline-online shenanigans by joining our meetup group here and come play and dance with us between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!

Welcome to day 120979713413482 of Covid Zoom purgatory. I – the mysterious blogwriter narration voice in your head as you read this – am back at last. We're reluctantly stuck in virtual purgatory together for a while longer.

But this is how Open Lab went on this fine day. The theme of the week (and also the past couple of weeks, apparently) was dreams.

FIRST THING: We record a video and send it to Alex. Surprise to come later.

Out of context quote 1: "Can you create a piece of technology that measures my stillness?"

SECOND THING: Wei talks about AI dream pulling. USCS has a very large Dreambank. The Dreambank data consists of almost 30,000 dream journal entries spanning several decades submitted by 74 different dreamers. See more about this work here.

Dai and Wei had worked on some cool beans stuff – dance on top of dreamscapes that are augmented with AI.

Our good friend Daniel showed us his life in dreamscape. It was his heroes journey. Now he's got his passion.

DREAMSCAPE JAM

We split up into groups and got stuff DONE. Three groups, three 1-minute performances. We took inspiration from a dream from the Dream Bank and came up with performances. They included mirrors, interpretive dancing, and Wei filming Dai.

Our meetup group is here and come play  and dance with us between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!

1) yahoo answers is being shut down. sad. this blog post is a tribute to yahoo answers.

2) we are kinetech arts open lab. we meet online every wednesday at 6 apparently even though it's beautiful outside. why ???????????????????????

3)

If you can understand better who you are, I think you will add to what we will know about water. -Kurt

4) All categories > Entertainment & Music > Drums

thank u don. we can play drums on the internet and hear cool stuff. u can build these also.

5) how do u clap

6) how do u have movement drive the music/rhythm instead of have the music/rhythm lead the dance? what does that even mean?

7) how do u have movement drive the music/rhythm instead of have the music/rhythm lead the dance? what does that even mean?

8) why does rebekah have 2 bodies?

rebekah showed us several cool dance films.

10) Is water good on feet? H help?

11) do beaches eat dancers ? And if so, why are so many dancers suicidal?

12) Will sand make me grevant?

13) who make this cool art????

14) want to join us?? And stay up to date by joining our meetup group here and come play and dance with us between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!

On the last Wednesday of every month, we here at Kinetech Arts like to co-host “Y-Exchange” alongside ODC Dance. Y-Exchange is a series of presentations about performing arts, technology and science and how they intersect and inform each other. Every month, selected artists and scientists are invited to talk about their life and work. The event takes place on the last Wednesday of every month. Since 2014, we have featured hundreds of artists and scientists from all over the world!

This month, our two artists were Sara Shelton Mann and Maurya Kerr.

Sara Shelton Mann

Sara Shelton Mann, a San Francisco based choreographer, performer, and teacher. In 1979, she moved to San Francisco to work with Mangrove, now Mixed Bag Productions, for which she serves as artistic director. One of its early manifestations was the company Contraband, launched as a performance group and research ground combining the principles of contact, systems of the body and spiritual practice into a unified system of research. Her Movement Alchemy training is an ongoing teaching project and is influenced by certifications and studies in the metaphysical and healing traditions. Sara’s performance work is a platform for collaboration and research in Consciousness.

In her part of the talk, she was kind enough to share with us the process she took to create her book launch, despite some technical difficulties.

We were also lucky enough to watch a trailer for another collaboration she did.

In the audience Q and A, we asked a lot of questions about how she understands the world and her guiding philosophy to her work.

"I see time, space, location. That's it," Sara replied. "I see the potential for joy. It's when intention and the moment come together when something else occurs."

Sara talked about training and how we are all  learning to be conscious of our bodies. "Training and consciousness comes in when you learn to see all the details and see the whole room."

When "non-dancers" walk into a dance studio, it seems like they forget how to use their bodies even though we all use our bodies every day – to cook food or to do chores or to get us from one place to another. Yet, in a dance studio or in some other kind of art, the intent is different, and suddenly we don't know how to be conscious of our body and use them well. Training allows us to be conscious, match an intent, and express it through our body.

If I can be 100% conscious of every movement I make, that would be enlightenment.

"I just want performers to know the power that they have." - Sara Shelton Mann

Maurya Kerr

"I feel like contextualizing work is cheating," Maurya Kerr began, but continued on. "I deeply believe in blackness and brownness and we have to destabilize white supremacy whether it's filmic or poetic or choreographic."

Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based choreographer, poet, educator, and the artistic director of tinypistol. Much of her work, across disciplines, is focused on Black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to wonderment. Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years, an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018, and holds an MFA from Hollins University. A recent Pushcart prize nominee, her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue River Review, River Heron Review, Inverted Syntax, Oyster River Pages, Chestnut Review (1st prize winner), and 'The Future of Black: A Black Comics and Afrofuturism Anthology' (2022).

She spoke about her piece BLACKSTAR, a continuation of a previous work Cosmos.

In Black Star, she explored a wide range of different emotions – joy, rage, and more. "The decolonization of the mind and body is getting to inhabit states that are not allowed.

My work is really about black and brown people claiming their birthright to wonderment. And to destabilize what black art or dance is. There is no monolithic blackness. No one ever asks "what's authentic whiteness"? There are so many ways to be white, just as there are so many ways to be black. And I'm interested in trying to show that.

Now she finally has the time and money to send her poems out to get published and she read us some poems – one about her ancestor's rape and a definition poem for the word "constellation."

She pointed us to this New York Times op-ed about confederate monuments: it begins with the line "I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South."

In the audience Q and A, Maurya spoke about how her fight for decolonization was more external at this point. She was lucky enough to not have too much of an own internal struggle, having grown up with close proximity to whiteness.

We spoke about cultural inferiority – the insidiousness of that inferiority complex that is present not only in America's minorities, but in Asian countries as well.

"Whiteness has the privilege of not noticing," she pointed out. "The point of white supremacy and racism is to make us lose hope."

Here are some resources for you:

Listen to the reflections of Suzette Sagisi on the process of BLACKSTAR: https://www.hopemohr.org/blog/2020/9/22/on-decolonizing-movement-embodied-feeling-and-intentionality and share the following Anti-Racism resources with your community.

Anti-Racism Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcqAMTNA*9GumvUyF6fzMSwszbq_OzQ

Anti-Racist Checklist: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTVNi03ahFVhFnAn9d8NRb81T2PX5otIPuEJzPCLNJyoLRBXlW5cX7_DiWffORMN9rR3xoz3ziPRloH/pub

White Fragility: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQNJV5wYiH1Dgl6U4kFhk4bbl6_RZqezBgrzt81I7brmp1x8z40ZzkfguNSpMBBOLiMD3iZnUyHOJBy/pub

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack: ( https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vS7DsKmc00n3pUenB1stguRK0P9_XQLwUt2q634KclwMaAVDvXAaPUvGNDU6Kge9pjT2vAR6bSVmtuY/pub)

Kimberly Jones on How Can We Win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9_qGOa9Go

If you're curious to explore more art or even to stay up to date with more future Y-Exchanges, feel free to join our meetup group here and pop on by between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on any Wednesday!

Y-Exchange is Co-Presented by Kinetech Arts, ODC Theater and The Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

Green is so last month.

Today at Open Lab, we hopped onto Zoom and switched it ALL out for blue screens.

Props to Wei, the tech wizard who put all of us together on a blue ocean.

We DID do a "Bad Lip Reading"  of a Dai and Irene video (put together by Wei). Effectively, we had one person volunteer to read out one dancer's "inner thoughts" We did two runthroughs of it.

In the first go, "Dai" (Alex's verbal interpretation of Dai) kept offering Irene coffee. In the second go, there was a complicated family tree situation and a lot of holding full bladders. No, I will not explain.  

After, we experimented with sound telephone and playing with vessels, eating food with sounds, and... a tangerine tree.

Wanna see this stuff in action?

Join the blue wave! Our meetup group is here and come play  and dance with us between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!

It was Wednesday. 6 pm. You should know the drill by now. First, some hot takes on what constitutes ART.

Then, we had Dai and Irene play around with a cool score + green screens, dancing across many many miles through zoom and Wei's tech magic. And we even got a behind the scenes look through Zoom gallery view.  

Both dancers couldn't really see each other or the screens but did follow the same score.

<Insert all the classic  philosophical questions about art and dance and connecting and screens during pandemic time.>

And then at last, we wanted everyone to be able to annotate on each other's faces and interact with each other ON each other's screens and profiles.  

But this is the way it panned out.

And then we tried to "push" a cursor around when it was actually Alex moving the cursor according to how she felt like the cursor would move if it were really being pushed by people on the screen.

Behind the scenes? Even more chaotic.

If you've got some hot takes about whether bananas duct-taped to walls are art or if you want to play a fake game where Alex Law's cursor responds to your movements and have Alex Law attempt to replicate the laws of physics as if she were video game code run by a computer, come join us at Kinetech Arts --  subscribe to our meetup group is here and come do weird stuff for us at 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!

WELCOME TO OPEN LAB. Welcome to the internet. Welcome to this blog post, if you are indeed reading this.

Ironic, because our unofficial open lab theme of the day is HEARING. With your tiny little eardrums. VIBRATE THOSE EARDRUMS and do things with that sensory information.

So how did we Open Lab on this fine day, a week after THE INSURRECTION and attempted undermining of American Democracy?

STEP 1: MEDITATION WITH KURT

Feel your breath. Pay attention to your breath. Think about how nice it is not to have COVID and be able to do this. Breath is air, but your air will feel different now that you're paying attention to it.

PSYCH. Now you won't be able to stop thinking about breathing and you'll have to consciously control your breath. Isn't that annoying? Heh.

(But if you need some breath meditation, Kurt is YOUR MAN.)

STEP 2: JAM IT UP

We did a quick jam where we all unmuted our mics and tuned into those noises that we were all making. No music – just the noises of existing at the same time.

As someone (Alex?) pointed out, the little subtle environment noises helped bring us into each other's environment. That's one aspect of in-person interactions we were missing!

STEP 3: SHARE A PIANO ONLINE.

Our most lovely Doga led us through an exercise

You can do so here: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Shared-Piano/#N5uTtLU2K and as long as everyone is in the room, you can all play on the same piano at the same time, virtually. A sure way to create chaos.

STEP 4: ALSO SING.

We kept jamming – some were humming to "G" (the pitch) and some of us were dancing on our screens and deliberately reacting to the humming with movement also singing at the same time. I wish I could share the audio with you of what we sounded like (ie. slightly out of tune, all of us) but you probably don't, so I won't.

Did someone also teach us some hand movements or something? My zoom was being extremely laggy so I actually didn't see anything. However, lots of fun movement and reacting to noises that we were all making.

STEP 5: JAMBOARD AND SING OR MAKE WEIRD NOISES

Ya had to be there... (literally. This jamboard session was made of ephemeral "laser"-style strokes so they never stayed on the board for longer than a second or two.)

STEP 6: ????????

A necessary step to allude to a meme format.

STEP 7: PROFIT

Just kidding. This is art-related and art doesn't make anyone a profit like ever. God bless good old American capitalism.

Well, if you want to stay up to date with us (us being Kinetech Arts), you can  subscribe to our meetup group is here and pop on by to experiment with sounds and dance with us between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!

I'm not sure what was happening, but it was happening. If you want to get in on the happening, come join us on Wednesdays 6-7:15 PM Pacific time.

Our meetup group is here.

Once upon a pandemic Wednesday dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a Zoom call,

As of someone gently art-ing, (farting?) at my laptop for

A Kinetech Art Open Lab at 6 pm. Only this and nothing more.

Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December

And each separate dying Covid patient wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Maskless Before

For the rare and radiant days whom Liberal Media call The Before

Nameless here forever more.

As we entered Kinetech Lab, my soul grew stronger, hesitating then no longer,

"Sirs," said I, "Madams, truly your forgiveness I implore;

But the fact is now it's time for Pandemic Poetry Fun Times, and you can also do some rapping,

If you faintly do some tapping, dancing, treat your Zoom box as a dance floor,

And now one of us will say things and the rest of us will dance some more,

And Wei will do some weird tech stuff galore" – here I opened wide the door –

Darkness there and nothing more.

Open here I flung the shutter, when with many a flirt and flutter,

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;

Not the least social distance regulations-compliance was he; not safely Covid tested was he;

But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door –

Perched upon a bust of Pallas to watch the Green Screen effect Wei had in store.

Quoth the Raven, "Stay up to date with Kinetech Arts by subscribing to our meetup group is here and come do some weird art tech stuff with us between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!"

Today at 6 pm, we were met with a wonderful surprise! Another meetup group decided to hop on into our meetup this week, and we had a lovely time combining two art-focused communities.

Up on our agenda today is our very own John Bohannon, who came to share a new toy he was working on.

John and his friend Jeremy trained an AI on 200,000 tweets to summarize sentences in one or two emojis. There's lots to be said here – here's a quick screeshot of what John's new toy looked like and what it would do.

While he hasn't done this yet, what WOULD be interesting to do is to train the AI on specific subcultures and see how it would summarize other semantics and text in emojis.

If you can find rules that filter out all twitter users to gets the subculture that you're interested in, you can train the AI in a way that it develops a much more nuanced and specific personality. An AI trained on EVERYONE's emoji usage patterns is not that interesting, but an AI trained on say, just right-leaning or just left-leaning users... or just artists or just bitcoin enthusiasts could definitely generate an interesting array of AI emoji-tweeting bots.

Important to Note: It is indeed possible to train a super-queer emoji bot.

Extra reading: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0894439320909085

Part 2: Krishnan, Dylan, and Co

Krishnan Unnikrishnan presented what his group has been working on, which involves theory about how to translate between currency, narrative, sound, movement, and visuals.

Dylan Ricards (software engineer) made some living currency, which I thought I got a screenshot of, but it did not work so you'll have to imagine a diatom drawn with markers and shapes of people.

Raul (music producer who uses algorithms to generate work) explored topology and interconnectedness using Lindenmayer systems.

The axiom that generated this graph that might correlate to a decision-making pattern by someone.

Rahoul also did a live demo generating these networks for us, to see emerging stories and connections in society by finding micro-seeds in these things.

Also, Ben the GOOSE MAN filled in a mad lib while everyone was presenting, asking a bunch of participants for specific words. Here’s the outcome:

The Times Called Officials in Every State: No Evidence of Slimey Rugs.

The octopus and his ferns have willingly claimed that rampant Post Offices stole rugs from him. Ferns quietly contacted by The Times said that there were no irregularities that affected the rugs. Clever geese in dozens of states representing both interspace-fern parties said that there was no evidence that sauntering or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the rug supply, amounting to a radiant rebuke of Octopus’s portrait of a slimey rug.

And then Sarah Frucht shared some old tree-fractal-growing scripts that she wrote years ago.

Before we hopped off the call, we spent several minutes doing a movement-witness exercise. Half the group danced/moved while the other half drew or wrote, being inspired by whatever was going on in the group. And then, we switched. The result was a lot of beautiful drawings of movements and sometimes Larry the cat.

Also, Larry the cat made a cameo, watching us do our movement-witnessing exercise.

What a talented community!

To witness more cats witnessing art/dance or to explore emojis... join us! Our meetup group is here and pop on by between 6-7:15 PM Pacific time on Wednesdays!

THIS WEEK AT KINETECH ARTS WE HAD THE GREATEST OPEN LAB. IN THE WORLD. VOTE!

WE STARTED BY DOING ANOTHER MENTI GROUP QUESTIONNAIRE . VOTE!

THIS SCREENSHOT IS HOW WE ALL FEEL AS WE BURN IN A DYSTOPIAN HELL WHERE THE US GOVERNMENT CAN PERFORM UNCONSENTING HYSTERECTOMIES AND THE PRESIDENT ACTIVELY INFECTED OTHERS WHILE HAVING COVID-19. VOTE!

WE ALSO HAVE A LOOSE UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEFINITION OF EMOJIS. VOTE!

ON THIS DAY, ALEX WAS SPEAKING. OUR VERY OWN ALEX WHO SENDS OUT THE EMAILS. VOTE!

SHE IS SO TALENTED SHE ALSO DOES DATA ANALYSIS USING KINEVIZ SOFTWARE BY WEI. VOTE!

SHE LOOKED AT HOW TWITTER WAS AFFECTING THE ELECTION. VOTE!

THE BLUE IS DEMOCRATIC/LEFTWING TWEETS AND USERS. RED IS THE RIGHT. THE RIGHT LOOKS LIKE COVID-19. VOTE!

THIS IS IMPORTANT INFO TO LOOK AT BECAUSE AMERICA IS WEIRD AF AND TWITTER MESSES UP OUR PERCEPTION OF WHERE OUR POLITICIANS STAND. (NOT BY AND BACK.)! VOTE!  

BERNIE IS NOT REALLY THAT LEFT-WING BUT AMERICA SUCKS ABT BEING REASONABLE SO HE FEELS VERY RADICAL. VOTE!

TWITTER ALSO BECOMES ECHO CHAMBERS. FOR OUR OWN OPINIONS. VOTE!

IT JUST HAPPENS. SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS. VOTE!

SOME PEOPLE ON TWITTER HAVE A LOT OF INFLUENCE ON WHAT OTHER PEOPLE RETWEET.

YOU CAN SEE LEFT AND RIGHT-LEANING USERS. TWO BIG CAMPS. ITS CLEAR. VOTE!

MANY PEOPLE LOOK INTO HOW AUTOMATED TWITTER USERS ARE. VOTE!

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APPARENTLY RIGHT-WING TWITTER USERS HAV A HIGHER PROBABILITY OF BEING BOTS. VOTE!

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SPARKTORO HAS THE INFORMATION. INFORMATION THAT SPAM, BOT, PROPOGANDA, AND INACTIVE ACCOUNTS MAKE UP 61% OF DONALD TRUMP'S FOLLOWERS. VOTE!

THE MOST OF ANYONE ELSE! VOTE!

BUT ALSO A SIZABLE PERCENTAGE FOR EVERYONE ELSE TOO. VOTE!

I DONT REMEMBER WHAT ELSE HAPPENED AT OPEN LAB BECAUSE ELECTION TALK STRESSES ME OUT. VOTE!

TWITTER. BIG IMPACT. BIGGEST IN THE WORLD. VOTE!

COME TO OUR Y-EXCHANGE FOR A MORE IN DEPTH TALK ABOUT THIS WHOLE TWITTER AND DISINFORMATION SITUATION. VOTE!

KINETECH OPEN LAB. WED 6-715 PST. VOTE!

BUT NOT NEXT WEEK BECAUSE Y-EXCHANGE IS NEXT WEEK. 6-730 PST. VOTE!

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MAYBE ALSO TEXT BANK.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.