by Ji Lee
A sadly accurate intimacy-meter in an age ruled by Twitter and Facebook, from the cunning designer of the Google Me Business Card.
Via Josh Spear
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Murmur Study
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
Murmur Study from Christopher Baker on Vimeo.
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From the U.K. street artist Questionmarc. Check out the response a while later from someone who didn’t think the message was clear enough.
Via NOTCOT
Twitter? Flickr?! But I hardly know’er!
The thing that really made me see just how insanely huge Twitter is getting was twittervision, a 3D simulation of tweets as they happen – spotlighting one tweet per second, displaying who tweeted (or is it ‘twatted’?), what they tweeted, and where they tweeted. When I first saw this, I found myself 10 minutes later, still staring at the screen. They got me – I was sold.
The trend has been set.
Now, some [awesome] people at MIT have created a similar program for Flickr, in a project called The World’s Eyes. The project currently only focuses on Flickr users in Spain, but I hope MIT’s project will open Flickr’s eyes a bit, and encourage them to try a little harder and step up their game from their current interactive world map.
“It’s like I’m hanging out with all my friends, ALL THE TIME!”
This one is just too funny to pass up.
My favorite line: “…this is how our generation communicates now…with detached, bite-sized yippity yap!”
via LePost.fr
