Murmur Study by Christopher Baker
Christopher Baker is an American artist whose work often reflects upon the complex relationship between society and technology. His most recent installation – in collaboration with Márton András Juhász and the Kitchen Budapest – consists of 20 thermal printers that are constantly working and pulling live data from the social networking and micro-blogging website, *Twitter.
Christopher describes it as ‘an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook status updates. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and digitally-indexed by corporations. While the future of these archives remains to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal — often emotional — expression should give us pause.‘
More pictures and a video of the instillation after the break.
To see Christopher’s past projects, click here.
*If you aren’t already following me on Twitter, you can do so by clicking here – I wont bite.
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