Post- Digital Print - Monoskop
Post- Digital Print - Monoskop
Post- Digital Print - Monoskop
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technical networks. The blogger Larval Subjects advises us to<br />
think ‘about rain drops in a pond’, as ‘the waves these drops produce<br />
converge and diverge with one another producing additional<br />
patterns’.” 106<br />
One thing the printed medium by nature cannot be used for (considering<br />
for now only the news) is the real-time aggregation, searching<br />
and comparing of news stories, performed by networked computers,<br />
and viewed on networked screens. A good example of this is Marcus<br />
Weskamp’s online artwork Newsmap, 107 a powerful visual representation<br />
of the news mediascape. Using data from Google News, the site’s<br />
mapping technique divides the screen into columns (topics) in which<br />
the size of each article’s headline is in direct proportion to its popularity<br />
– a visual representation of the viral character of online news, behaving<br />
here as a kind of digital life form, which reproduces according<br />
to a specific ‘survival of the fittest’ ecology of access.<br />
Another online artwork dealing with these aspects of the online information<br />
environment is Falling Times 108 by Michael Bielicky, Kamila<br />
65<br />
Screenshot<br />
of Marcus<br />
Weskamp’s<br />
Newsmap, 2004<br />
Michael Bielicky,<br />
Kamila B. Richter<br />
and Dirk Reinbold,<br />
Falling Times, 2007
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