Twitter just the right way and you may find your tweet printed here into this artspace. Here’s an amazing project that grabs little bits of our collective consciousness from twitter and facebook and prints it on physical thermal paper in a feed quite similar to what I’d imagine all of the nonsense looking if it were to be printed in such a manner. It all collects on the floor in a haphazard manner. Brilliant. Official description and links/video below.
Murmur Study is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook’s status update. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and digitally-indexed by corporations. While the future of these archives remains to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal — often emotional — expression should give us pause. This installation consists of 30 thermal printers that continuously monitor Twitter for new messages containing variations on common emotional utterances. Messages containing hundreds of variations on words such as argh, meh, grrrr, oooo, ewww, and hmph, are printed as an endless waterfall of text accumulating in tangled piles below.
Murmur study is an ongoing collaboration with Márton András Juhász and the Kitchen Budapest. Murmur Study is a commission of Northern Lights’ Art(ists) On the Verge program with the generous support of the Jerome Foundation. Additional support provided by the McKnight Foundation, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Project Site / Videography by Andrea Steudel / Music – Tarlton – « Bol» tarltonmusic.com
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