I Want You To Want Me / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

The interactive installation "I Want You To Want Me", by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, for their "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition.

I Want You To Want Me explores the search for love and self in the world of online dating. It chronicles the world's long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, using real data collected from Internet dating sites every few hours.

The piece is presented on a 56" high-resolution touch-screen, hanging vertically on the wall, and was installed at MoMA on February 14, 2008, Valentine's Day.

Video by http://mssngpeces.com/

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[scribble127]

"[people] talk about themselves in 200 words and say the most important things about themselves, so it is very fertile ground for building a mosaic of humanity."

... unless they are lying, and I would wager a significant number are at least stretching the truth.

[BookofMormonReader]

This is absolutely profound it its application. What a magnum opus!

[Mathias Bliki]

This is not the song I was looking for.

[lynn ley]

how did they do it??

[Ben Dover]

@edatebook you spelled Facebook wrong.

[ilikecheese22100]

this is wierd

[incurablehumanist]

Yeah. It was really smart of them to use Personal. So fitting :D

[lanstarmandragoran]

Saw this at MOMA as well. Interesting idea!

[weheartjill]

@JVGV1 the name of the song is "Personal" by the band Stars. It is a fantastic song and an incredible band that I highly recommend checking out :)