A piece about media focus and obsession with world aggression. The software compares hourly network-based World News feeds from Yahoo.com and bbc.co.uk against a database of synonyms of the word "aggression," then outputs the matches as angry, fighting capsules. More matches return more, and angrier, capsules. Built in Processing.
Full Description
A piece about media focus and obsession with world aggression. The software compares hourly network-based World News feeds from Yahoo.com and bbc.co.uk against a database of synonyms of the word "aggression," then outputs the matches as angry, fighting capsules. More matches return more, and angrier, capsules. Built in Processing.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2003
- Submitted to ArtBase: Thursday Feb 5th, 2004
- Original Url: http://half-a-world-away.com/breakingNews
- Permalink: http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/22804/
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Work Credits:
- Jonas Downey, creator
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