About

Taylor Hokanson

Email
taylor (at) taylorhokanson (dot) com

Studio
Logan Square, Chicago
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Statement

Taylor Hokanson’s work is defined, like so many areas of culture, by the collapse of the division between real and virtual. He sees the global move to the cloud as an inflection point, a transformation so pivotal that it demands a reevaluation of core societal values. When information, and even objects themselves, can be produced and shared at low or no cost across the internet, concepts like expertise, authorship, and ownership become as plastic as the data that give them shape. The culture has not kept pace with the implications of these technologies, even as we invite them in to every aspect of our lives. Hokanson’s creative practice identifies and problematizes those systems and structures we take for granted, by creating objects that are physical, functional, and absurd.

4 thoughts on “About

  1. James

    Hi there! I came across your bus tracker project and I think that is a cool idea that I want to replicate with the new Raspberry Pi Zeros. Only thing is that I live in Toronto Canada. Our tansit authority: “Toronto Transit Commission” provides public API’s for all its routes and stops from a provider called Nextbus. Do you think your program could be modified to use for our Transit system without much modification?

    1. Taylor Post author

      This was my first API project, so I’m no expert. A quick google returns this repo that documents how the Nextbus API functions. It look a lot like the system here in Chicago, so I imagine you could modify the code without many changes.

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