The listening post

[Tank Girl]

wonder if PV shows up here :crazy:



Visiting the Science Museum for new exhibition 'Listening Post'
Listening Post is the fantastic new long-term exhibition at the science museum

Listening Post is a 'dynamic portrait' of online communication, displaying uncensored fragments of text, sampled in real-time, from public internet chatrooms and bulletin boards.

Artists Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin have divided their work into seven separate 'scenes' akin to movements in a symphony. Each scene has its own 'internal logic', sifting, filtering and ordering the text fragments in different ways.

By pulling text quotes from thousands of unwitting contributors' postings, Listening Post allows you to experience an extraordinary snapshot of the internet and gain a great sense of the humanity behind the data. The artwork is world renowned as a masterpiece of electronic and contemporary art and a monument to the ways we find to connect with each other and express our identities online.

Listening Post features uncensored fragments of text from live chatroom data. It may occasionally include content that is unsuitable for children or which some visitors may find offensive.
The exhibition runs from Tuesday February 19th 2008 to Thursday February 19th 2009.

[ellie]

although if it is made up of live chatroom data it will only say.

is any one in here?
noone is ever in here
blah blah blah
i'm here!
oh no you've gone
noone is ever in here

...and repeat :wink:

[Shit Robot]

although if it is made up of live chatroom data it will only say.

is any one in here?
noone is ever in here
blah blah blah
i'm here!
oh no you've gone
noone is ever in here

...and repeat :wink:

:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:

Though assuming thats not the case,it looks pretty cool to me,though what would be really cool would be an online version,must be possible if they hooked up a webcam or something.

[d.r.e.a.m]

although if it is made up of live chatroom data it will only say.

is any one in here?
noone is ever in here
blah blah blah
i'm here!
oh no you've gone
noone is ever in here

...and repeat :wink:

Thats just what I was thinking!!:laugh_at:

[Playground Politics]

although if it is made up of live chatroom data it will only say.

is any one in here?
noone is ever in here
blah blah blah
i'm here!
oh no you've gone
noone is ever in here

...and repeat :wink:

yeah that is a point

[Tank Girl]

although if it is made up of live chatroom data it will only say.

is any one in here?
noone is ever in here
blah blah blah
i'm here!
oh no you've gone
noone is ever in here

...and repeat :wink:
tee hee!!

It does look good I might have to have a gander


also in trafalgar square this week there's an interesting instillation called under scan

The world's largest interactive video installation will fill the Northern Terrace of Trafalgar Square for 10 days this November, from dusk till late.

Two large-scale projectors will flood an area over 2,000m2 with 110,000 lumens of light, casting long shadows of anyone walking into or passing through the space. As visitors enter Under Scan they are detected by a sophisticated camera and sensor tracking-system, and animated video portraits suddenly appear, projected into the viewers' shadows.

Under Scan is by leading electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.