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Joanne McNeil

Joanne McNeil is a writer interested in the ways that technology is shaping art, politics, and society. She was a digital arts writing fellow at the Thomas Art Foundation and an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam. She is currently writing a book about internet culture.

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The Windshield and the Screen
Joanne McNeil
2019-02
"A Google Street View car in Los Angeles once captured a picture of Leonard Cohen. It happened a couple of years before he died. He was sitting with an acquaintance on lawn chairs outside his modest home in the Mid-Wilshire neighbourhood. The driver was an accidental paparazzi. Cohen didn’t even notice him. (...) Google Street View isn’t …
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Listening to a Face
Joanne McNeil
2016-11
“The truth is written all over our faces” was a tagline for Lie to Me, a procedural drama on network television several years ago.
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