Listening Post by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
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Uploaded by sciencemuseum on Nov 24, 2009
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.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/listening_post.aspx
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.
Listening Post is currently on display in the Science Museum Arts Projects gallery on the first floor.
Listening Post has been presented to the Science Museum by The Art Fund. http://www.artfund.org
Ben Rubin is a sound designer and multimedia artist and Mark Hansen is an artist and statistician. They have been collaborating since 1999 and have received critical acclaim for Listening Post, including the Ars Electronica/ORF Austrian Broadcasting Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica prize for interactive art in 2004.
Artists websites:
Ben Rubin http://www.earstudio.com/
Mark Hansen http://www.stat.ucla.edu
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I see this a few months ago, was amazing. A must go see at the science museum. I keep watching this video as the backing music is hauntingly amazing A*
RICHtheLAWSON 2 weeks ago
saw this last summer, i spent a whole hour watching it, it's amazing.
StarkidNina6277 4 weeks ago
@whitelife91 me 2
vlad100666 6 months ago
Was just there, Saturday 7th may 2011
i sat there for 30mins watching this, its fantastic
whitelife91 8 months ago
I was there with my dad and i just can't go anywhere else from that place. It was amazing, i wish, i'll spend once for a day to watch it again and again :)
LittleBigBoom 9 months ago
me and my [now ex] girlfriend visted this twice and each time spent around 2 hours inside. It is wonderful and hypnotic, and i would love to personally thank and shake the hand of the creators. =) xxx
Chasis1991 1 year ago 2
I saw this about a week ago. It's an amazing display - very captivating, and the music is beautifully haunting.
tashermasher 1 year ago