r/aaronswartz

Eye-Tracking Poem for Aaron Swartz

Hi, r/aaronswartz. I just published a poem about Aaron Swartz and thought you guys might be interested. The poem uses open-source eye-tracking tech to react to your gaze.

It's part of a civic engagement project from MIT's Open Documentary Lab called Layers of Place: Austin where 6 local poets were selected to respond to 6 AR artworks.

My AR piece was a memorial for Aaron Swartz, so I dove deep into his life and his ideals, which align with a lot of my own. The poem incorporates themes of open access, free information, and surveillance, while also memorializing his life.

You can read/experience the poem here: https://augustsmith.net/not-enough-vision/. Thank you for checking it out!

u/Relative_Band_7986 — 9 days ago

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Aaron Swartz’s Open Access Manifesto in 25 languages

Years ago, I created a website in memory of Aaron Swartz to make the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto available in different languages, with translations contributed by people from around the world.

I recently revived the project as a much simpler static website. It currently has 25 languages:

https://openaccess.eza.link

Corrections and missing translations are very welcome.

Working on it again also made me wonder what Aaron would be doing today. So many of the questions he cared about, access to knowledge, concentrated corporate power, control of the internet and political organizing, seem even more consequential and relevant today.

I wonder how Aaron would have responded to the challenges we are facing today.

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u/eza137 — 14 days ago