Crit 02 : Reaching Out

i stumbled a few installation i found, the last post started to look too long to put everything in it.

Listening Post by Mark Hansem and Ben Rubin

actually this one ive found during my New Media class research. its done back in 2001 where it collects text pieces from all over the cyberspace. here's the official description made on the installation :

Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.
Listening Post cycles through a series of six movements, each a different arrangement of visual, aural, and musical elements, each with it's own data processing logic.
Dissociating the communication from its conventional on-screen presence, Listening Post is a visual and sonic response to the content, magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication.

More info: http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html

this is where the original idea i proposed came from. also from buzz-mood. trying to collect what everyone thinks, feels, wants and creating a unity from that. but seeing how there's really no limitation or parameters on what a person can write/input, it's hard to keep the app in control as it may need administration/observation all the time. filtering what's right and what's not. and that sucks.



We Are The Citizen

okay honestly this one doesn't look so great. it uses AR to project words that are unity-related and community-related. yea the idea is brilliant. just that it doesn't look interesting i dont think it attracted that many people. and the whole point here is to reach out to the community. still it's a good reference as it also plays with words. which i think might need a little bit more visual in it.

A visual allegory for existence in Singapore, this installation thematically revolves around air conditioning, a physical condition noted for it's importance in Singapore's great economic development through the conditioning of ambient temperature. 'We the citizens' is about us, Singaporeans and endeavors to confront the audience with issues of our comfort and meanings of unity under the comfort of government. "We the citizens" utilises Mixed Reality Technology