news installation at NYTimes
a new permanent art installation in the lobby of the New York Times. artist Ben Rubin & UCLA professor/statistician Mark Hansen have created an installation of 560 small screens, mounted on 2 walls, which display information culled from the newspaper’s archives, live feeds, online search terms & web commentary. information is parsed & displayed by algorithms created by the artists, for example, filtering only sentences from quotations that start with “you” or “I.”.
a documentary youtube movie is available after the break.
[link: nytimes.com & earstudio.com & nytimes.com (video)|via flowingdata.com|thnkx Nathan]
see also US census headquarters.
(Via information aesthetics.)
