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Listening Post at the Science Msueum

Monument to the present - the sound of 100,000 people chatting

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post immerses us in a rhythm of computer-synthesised voices reading, or singing out, a fluid play of real-time text fragments. The fragments are sampled from thousands of live, unrestricted internet chatrooms, bulletin boards and other online public forums. They are uncensored and unedited. Stray thoughts resonate through the space in sound and voice as texts surge, flicker, appear and disappear, at varying sizes and speeds, across a suspended grid of over 200 small electronic screens. An ambient soundtrack accompanies the activity with isolated pulses reminiscent of computer modems, clatterings, footsteps and the beeping of mechanical answering machines. At intervals darkness and silence take over, creating momentary pauses before Listening Post continues with its next movement.

The artists’ starting place for Listening Post was simple curiosity - what might 100,000 people chatting online sound like? Hansen and Rubin agreed that the project should have a strong social component, so whilst initial research centred on statistical representations of websites, they rapidly moved towards concentrating on actual language from chatrooms, ‘from which a kind of music began to emerge… the messages started to form a giant cut-up poem’.

The piece responds to a special moment in history. At no other time since the birth of communications technologies have ordinary people - independent of news channels, corporations or political parties - had the opportunity to exchange views so immediately and on such a large scale.

Every day, at every hour, hundreds of thousands of us go online to meet friends, exchange news and share thoughts. Listening Post interrogates this phenomenon by continually drawing down fragments of these online discussions, including them in its cycle of orderings, siftings and filterings - so that, in the artists words, it turns ‘public chat room data into an experience that conveys the yearnings of people out there to connect with each other’.

The patterns identified by the artists allow Listening Post to build up a multi-sensory ‘portrait of chat’. Some of its movements concentrate on the most common first words of new postings - ‘I am…’, ‘I like…’, ‘I love…’ - which themselves speak volumes for the ways in which we choose to identify ourselves online. Others list least-used words or work in topic clusters, arranging selections from thousands of simultaneous conversations by content and revealing emerging topics of the day, the hour, or indeed the moment. From the profound to the frivolous or personal, from the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center to the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, Listening Post presents us with whatever is occupying our collective thoughts right now.

Hannah Redler, Head of Arts Projects

Listening Post has been presented to the Science Museum by The Art Fund.

We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.

The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine’s Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.

The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles’ properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.

At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what’s on our blogs, what’s in our hearts, what’s in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.

- Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar
May 2006

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jessie-estella:

I’ve been noticing a ridiculous number of triangles everywhere I look at the moment. Superimposed onto photographs… in designs… drawings of them.

Koonelli is definitely the main culprit, but she’s not the only one posting triangles! These were just the examples that cropped up first.

This was to prove that I’m not going mad and that there really are a stupid number of triangles in life at the moment.

This was also useful for procrastination. Good work, tumblr.

edit: this is not a negative thing. I like triangles too.

HAHA. Well, my excuse is the same as yours I guess. I like them. I find them aesthetically pleasing. I like that they’re kind of unusual and ambiguous and awkward when everything else (photos, books, papers, technology, signs, rooms) are all rectangular or square. And there are all sorts of psychological, pseudo mathematical reasons. When I was young I used to see triangles everywhere. I’m actually shamefully anal about it. Sometimes it annoys me when I see pictures of them and they’re not exactly equilateral.

There you have it.

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