[Air-l] Digital Art in NYC -- LISTENING POST at the Whitney Museum

[Gina Neff]

A digital art project of interest to AoIRers, especially those of you who might be coming through New York in the next few months. 

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From: "Ben Rubin" <benrubin at earstudio.com>
To: <dEARfriends at earstudio.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:14 AM
Subject: LISTENING POST at the Whitney Museum


Starting today and continuing through March 9, LISTENING POST will be
presented on the first floor of the Whitney Museum as part of their
Contemporary Series.

The size and scope of the piece have been extended since its brief run
at the BAM Next Wave festival a year ago.  Please come see it!

Ben

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More information:
http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningPost.html

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin: Listening Post
on view December 17, 2002 ­ March 9, 2003
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street

Listening Post is a biorhythmic visual and sonic response to the content,
magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication. This collaborative
multimedia installation is composed of a suspended grid of more than two
hundred small electronic screens that display fragments of texts culled in
real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin
boards and other public forums. Dissociating the communication from its
conventional on-screen presence, the project presents the texts according to
the frequency of randomly selected words, topics emerging and changing from
hour to hour and day to day. A coordinated audio component alternates
between musical passages and sections that vocalize certain messages,
underscoring the text on the screens.

General Information: (212) 570-3676
Ticketing: 1 (877) WHITNEY
http://www.whitney.org

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Ben Rubin
http://www.earstudio.com
(212) 334-9969
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