Arpi Mardirossian

Here is a great video by OK Go for Skyscrapers that features a sultry montage of dance moves through a series of colorful urban backdrops. The clip was directed and produced by Grammy Award-winning choreographer and director Trish Sie.

I love Gold Bug!

I recently attended CrowdConf 2010, a conference on crowdsourcing, in San Francisco, CA. It was a very well organized and informative event. Some of the highlights of the day for me were (in order of appearance):

Leila Chirayath Janah (Samasource): connecting people living in poverty with microwork

Martijn Lampert (Motivaction): managing a crowd of Dutch consumers for panel research

John Horton (Harvard): Algorithmic Wage Negotiations: Applications to Paid Crowdsourcing

Dana Chandler (MIT) and Adam Kapelner (U Penn): Preventing Satisficing in Online Surveys: A ‘Kapcha’ to Ensure Higher Quality Data

David Alan Grier: When Computers Were Human

Patrick Meier (Ushahidi): Crowdsourcing Crisis Information: The Future of Humanitarian Response

I have been painting and drawing since I was a young girl. I began by getting creative with my coloring books. I then moved on to copying famous works of art. I was especially captivated by the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Rousseau.

When I went to college, I pursued one of my other passions, math. Math quickly became my inspiration for painting. I believe that mathematical truths and theories can be used to either symbolically represent or explain our world. Ultimately, I hope that the ideas I present will find their way into your thoughts and help you see your world and relationships as having more depth, organization and symmetry.

My training has come in the form of a multitude of art classes taken for as long as I can remember. But, my most significant training was from renowned artist Saeed Siadat with whom I completed two years of private lessons. My works have been exhibited in the Southern California area.