Daniel Rozin
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Movie of Wooden Mirror
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Hansen + Rubin
The Listening Post exhibition at the Whitney this winter is presented to the visitor as a visual and sonic response to the magnitude and immediacy of virtual communication. The multimedia installation, assembled by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, is composed of a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens. Fragments of texts are gathered in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, newsgroups, bulletin boards and other public forums. Statistical analysis then organizes their messages into topic clusters based on content. Since the work displays the texts according to the frequency of randomly selected words, topics change daily and even hourly. A coordinated audio component alternates between musical passages and sections vocalizing the text.
The screens capture the contributions of tens of thousands of people, and the content is varied and ever-changing. Fragments of text are displayed simultaneously in order to convey the scale of the system being observed. The dynamic nature of the forums is reflected in the patterns that emerge and mirror the rhythms of individual communication. Vocalizations may occur simultaneously , and the pitches and tones are designed to respond to the changes and patterns in the content of the messages
Third Space
Students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, have created an installation called The Third Space, which is woven from more than a million cable ties. The environment was constructed at Designers’ Saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland, last weekend.
Dobpler LED wall – Norway
This past year, people walking through the pedestrian tunnel in Sandnes Sentrum, Norway,were faced with the unique opportunity to watch their shadows transform into a beautiful luminous art show. Constructed as part of the city’s European Capitol of Culture 2008 event,the Strømer, is an interactive LED display wall
JEAN SHIN
In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
22,528 recycled computer keycaps and 192 custom keycaps, fabric, customized active keyboard and interactive software, video projection and painted aluminum armatures
2.6 ft h x 4 ft w x 20.4 ft d
Permanent Collection of Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
In this interactive sculpture, thousands of recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. The keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and fabricators regarding the creation of the artwork. As a result, the sculpture documents its own making. Viewers can also type their own messages on the active keys amid the first three rows of emails. These new messages are then projected onto the opposite end of the fabric, thereby continuing the virtual dialogue. The project speaks to the pervasiveness of email in our lives while commenting on the fact that, despite the modern technology of virtual communication, our written language is linked to the tactile sensation of moving our fingers over an outmoded typewriter system.
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