March 8, 2008

Artists Surveille the Internet: The Listening Post



By Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen. "[T]he messages you see and hear flowing across the grid of 231 vacuum tube screens are derived from a continuous live feed from thousands of internet chatrooms."

Per the U.K.'s TimesOnline, after years of updates and a stint at the Whitney, the piece has now become part of the permanent collection at the Science Museum in London. More, including the Times' own video, at the link above.

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