Links for 2009-12-08
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"The 24 comprises a live electronic display in the public site of a bus shelter on which a text unfolds each day, spanning a period of twenty-four hours. The work develops at the rate of one phrase per minute, totaling 1440 phrases, each describing imagined sounds, events, sights and conversations from a city, shifting in mood and content as each day progresses to night. […] At night, between midnight and 6am, the writing is manipulated live by a computer program that creates new combinations of action, image and event from the existing text – a sampling and remixing process that produces increasingly poetical, unlikely and unsettling possibilities."
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Digging up old stuff by Russel and Chris and Adam about screens for a workshop I'm working on. I particularly like what Russel has to say about the dangers of the proliferation of glowing rectangles in urban space: "My concern is that we'll end up blundering into cities plastered with the equivalent of flash banners and microsites. […] and half of me suspects we're going to end up with Blade Runner directed by the people who brought you Orangina and Cillit Bang."
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