A digital art project of interest to AoIRers, especially those of you who might be coming through New York in the next few months. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Rubin" <benrubin@earstudio.com> To: <dEARfriends@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 ----------------- 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 ------------------------ Ben Rubin http://www.earstudio.com (212) 334-9969 ------------------------