Josh Begley | |
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Born | 1984 (age 39–40)
San Francisco, California |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts |
Known for | Digital Art, Data Visualization |
Website |
joshbegley |
Josh Begley (born 1984) is an American digital artist known for his data visualizations. He is the creator of Metadata+, an iPhone app that tracked every reported United States drone strike. [1] Begley is the director of two short films, Best of Luck with the Wall (2016) and Concussion Protocol (2018), both produced by Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras. [2] He is based in Brooklyn, New York.[ citation needed]
Begley was born in San Francisco, California in 1984. [3] He is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley [4] and the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. [5] [6]
In July 2012, Begley developed an iPhone application that would send a push notification every time there was a US drone strike in Pakistan, Yemen, or Somalia. Apple rejected the app three times in the months following its release, [7] calling its content "crude and objectionable". [8] Begley then created Dronestream, a Twitter account chronicling every reported US drone strike, [9] for Douglas Rushkoff's Narrative Lab. It gained 15,000 followers in the first week. [10] [11]
In June 2012, Begley and two other New York University graduate students, Mehan Jayasuriya and James Borda, received a cease and desist letter from Invisible Children for their Kony 2012 parody website, Kickstriker. [12] [13]
In 2014, after five rejections, Apple accepted Begley's iPhone app. [14] It was then approved as Metadata+, before once again being removed by Apple, bringing the total number of rejections to 12. [15] [16] He works at The Intercept with journalists Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, and Laura Poitras. [17]
Begley is the director of Best of Luck with the Wall (2016), a documentary short about the geography of the U.S.-Mexico border. [18] It was made with 200,000 satellite images downloaded from Google Maps. [19] It received Honorary Mention at 2017 Prix Ars Electronica and was nominated for an ICP Infinity Award. [20]
In 2018, Begley released his second short film, Concussion Protocol (2018), produced by Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras. The New Yorker called it "a chasteningly gorgeous accounting of each concussion reported during the current N.F.L. season." [21]
He co-taught a class at Columbia Law School in Fall of 2018. [22]
He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Josh Begley | |
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Born | 1984 (age 39–40)
San Francisco, California |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts |
Known for | Digital Art, Data Visualization |
Website |
joshbegley |
Josh Begley (born 1984) is an American digital artist known for his data visualizations. He is the creator of Metadata+, an iPhone app that tracked every reported United States drone strike. [1] Begley is the director of two short films, Best of Luck with the Wall (2016) and Concussion Protocol (2018), both produced by Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras. [2] He is based in Brooklyn, New York.[ citation needed]
Begley was born in San Francisco, California in 1984. [3] He is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley [4] and the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. [5] [6]
In July 2012, Begley developed an iPhone application that would send a push notification every time there was a US drone strike in Pakistan, Yemen, or Somalia. Apple rejected the app three times in the months following its release, [7] calling its content "crude and objectionable". [8] Begley then created Dronestream, a Twitter account chronicling every reported US drone strike, [9] for Douglas Rushkoff's Narrative Lab. It gained 15,000 followers in the first week. [10] [11]
In June 2012, Begley and two other New York University graduate students, Mehan Jayasuriya and James Borda, received a cease and desist letter from Invisible Children for their Kony 2012 parody website, Kickstriker. [12] [13]
In 2014, after five rejections, Apple accepted Begley's iPhone app. [14] It was then approved as Metadata+, before once again being removed by Apple, bringing the total number of rejections to 12. [15] [16] He works at The Intercept with journalists Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, and Laura Poitras. [17]
Begley is the director of Best of Luck with the Wall (2016), a documentary short about the geography of the U.S.-Mexico border. [18] It was made with 200,000 satellite images downloaded from Google Maps. [19] It received Honorary Mention at 2017 Prix Ars Electronica and was nominated for an ICP Infinity Award. [20]
In 2018, Begley released his second short film, Concussion Protocol (2018), produced by Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras. The New Yorker called it "a chasteningly gorgeous accounting of each concussion reported during the current N.F.L. season." [21]
He co-taught a class at Columbia Law School in Fall of 2018. [22]
He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.