ENTER ARTWORK

Title:"FORGIVE US OUR TRESSPASSES."

Art: Data is the medium. This artworks re-confgures live news into an assemblage of blurred visuals. Each image is barely recognisable. The news is gathered across networks, brought in real time packets to the the screen for your experience. As an artwork, this work is dynamic, always changing and as the news changes so do the end result and the experience.

Exhibition: This can be exhibited at art galleries as an installtion. The installation version requires the use of three large plasma screens, to be shown as a tryptich. Techincal note; for art galleries wishing to exhibit this piece, you will need an internet connection.

This artwork is a real time audio visualization of the news.

network: (1) a system or group of interconnected elements; (2) a set of nodes, points, or locations connected by means of data, voice, and video communications for the purpose of exchange.

net art: art projects for which the (Internet) is both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/expressing/participating. Real time history painting.

generative. evolving continuous system of data.

Technology:

Screen scraping: Is a technique in which a computer program extracts text data from the display output of another program, ignoring all binary data (usually images or multimedia data). The program doing the scraping is called a screen scraper.

News: Any new information or current events. The reporting of news falls into the field of journalism. News is often reported by a variety of sources, such as newspapers, television and radio programs, wire services, and web sites. News reporting is a type of journalism, typically written or broadcast in news style. Most news is investigated and presented by journalists and can be distributed to various sites via news agencies.

Mashup: (web application hybrid), a website or web application that combines content from more than one source.

Stanza: In computer science, a stanza is a block or subsection of a human-readable configuration file for computer software...its also my name.

KEYWORDS: network, net art , networked, generative, sensor, installation and database, real time audio, visualization, environment.