Listening Post

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.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/listening_post.aspx

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Science Museum
• contemporary art
• electronic art
• Mark Hansen
• Ben Rubin