In case anyone is interested, there is now a newspaper article with a video about this piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/arts/design/25vide.html .hc On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > If any of you happens to be in New York City, drop by the lobby of > the new New York Times building. It's open to the public, and > there is a great installation there. The sound is all powered by > Pd and the text handling and sequencing was done with Python. > > http://earstudio.com/projects/moveable_type.html > > Moveable Type > Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin > (in progress, to be completed in fall, 2007) > > "Moveable Type, by New York artist Ben Rubin and U.C.L.A. associate > professor Mark Hansen, is an artwork commissioned for the ground- > floor lobby of The New York Times Building in New York City. When > complete, it will be a dynamic portrait of The Times. Statistical > methods and natural-language processing algorithms will be used to > parse the daily output of the paper (news, features, editorials) > and the archives, as well as the activity of visitors to > NYTimes.com (browsing, searching, commenting). The resulting > refracted view of The Times will be displayed on 560 vacuum- > fluorescent display screens installed in the lobby." > > I'll post more on this when I get it, like video would be nice... > > .hc > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > > ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- 'You people have such restrictive dress for women,’ she said, hobbling away in three inch heels and panty hose to finish out another pink-collar temp pool day. - “Hijab Scene #2", by Mohja Kahf _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
