Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, Listening Post

Description:

Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art. Winner of the Golden Nica at the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival in the category of Interactive Art, Listening Post is a lattice of 231 small LED screens, fed by computers that trawl public internet forums, such as chat rooms and message boards. Analyzing the text—typed just moments before—by tens of thousands of people in Internet chat rooms around the world, it presents them as six different “movements,” combining musical tones, sound effects, synthesized voice, and scrolling text.

Publication Location:

USA

Date:

2002-2005

Physical Location:

Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships Collection, #6673 Box 7 Folder 2

Cite As:

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, Listening Post. USA, 2002-2005. Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art. Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships Collection.