4.20.2004
design politics information
dpi.pdf
2004 DPI: DESIGN/POLITICS/INFORMATION 2
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HANSEN & RUBIN on Design and Dynamic Data
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Thursday, April 22 / Rm 3-120, Molecular & Cellular Biology Building
420 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis
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Reception 6:30 pm / Lecture begins 7:30 pm FREE
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What does the Internet sound like? Thousands of people are
contently nattering to each other in myriad chat rooms, but where
can one eavesdrop on all the sweet banalities exchanged therein?
Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin figured it out with Listening Post, a
lyrical installation that offers a spatial, visual and auditory experience
of these ethereal online conversations, using a bunch of cash
register VFDs (vacuum fluorescent displays), text-to-speech
software, and some deft data processing.
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Ben, an MIT Media Lab-trained sound and video artist, is founder of
Ear Studio, New York; Mark, formerly a Bell Labs research scientist,
is now an associate professor of statistics and design | media arts at
UCLA. They first met at a program organized by Brooklyn Academy
of Music and Lucent Technologies that brought artists and scientists
together, reprising the 1960s Experiments in Art and Technology
(E.A.T.) projects. On April 22, they will discuss their collaborations
in the design of dynamic data, ranging from Listening Post to a
forthcoming installation at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, San
Francisco, in partnership with architects Diller + Scofidio.
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their site, www.earstudio.com, explains; see the review in the ny times
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HANSEN & RUBIN on Design and Dynamic Data
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Thursday, April 22 / Rm 3-120, Molecular & Cellular Biology Building
420 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reception 6:30 pm / Lecture begins 7:30 pm FREE
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
What does the Internet sound like? Thousands of people are
contently nattering to each other in myriad chat rooms, but where
can one eavesdrop on all the sweet banalities exchanged therein?
Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin figured it out with Listening Post, a
lyrical installation that offers a spatial, visual and auditory experience
of these ethereal online conversations, using a bunch of cash
register VFDs (vacuum fluorescent displays), text-to-speech
software, and some deft data processing.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ben, an MIT Media Lab-trained sound and video artist, is founder of
Ear Studio, New York; Mark, formerly a Bell Labs research scientist,
is now an associate professor of statistics and design | media arts at
UCLA. They first met at a program organized by Brooklyn Academy
of Music and Lucent Technologies that brought artists and scientists
together, reprising the 1960s Experiments in Art and Technology
(E.A.T.) projects. On April 22, they will discuss their collaborations
in the design of dynamic data, ranging from Listening Post to a
forthcoming installation at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, San
Francisco, in partnership with architects Diller + Scofidio.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
their site, www.earstudio.com, explains; see the review in the ny times
