Newsfeeder: A Screen Scraping Real Time News Mash Up: By Stanza

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.

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 use of three plasma screens to be shown as a tryptich. Techincal note for art galleries wishing to exhibit this piece, you will need an internet connection.

A physical installation using the real time news feeds is in development using 12 monitors and two computers. Funding would be needed to exhibit this piece.

This artwork for exhibition and for sale. It can be installed as real time news or archived news.

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Stanza "UNSTABILITY NOTE": Software is ephemeral.

Everything will stop working, systems break, connections change, sites go down, api's change, security blocks, technology is not stable.

Sometimes this artwork, because it is real time it just stops working. Its unstable. This applies to Version III. above.