Crystal Ball - artwork by Martha Gabriel, using Twitter's TT

Crystal Ball is an interactive artwork developed by the Brazilian artist Martha Gabriel (www.martha.com.br). The work functions like a visualization ball for the main trends that emerge at each time from the presence social network/microblog Twitter. Through the Twitter's Trending Topics (TT), translated into images (via Google Images), Crystal Ball allows seeing and interacting with what is impacting our planet in real time providing the visualization of the network interpreted by itself, where the action of each person, consciously or not, affect the whole. Physically, the work functions as a touch interface over a table, to allow the interaction with the Crystal Ball like in ancient times.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• twitter
• crystal ball
• martha gabriel
• trending topics
• touch