[PD] Moveable Type - powered by Pd

palmieri, ricardo ricardopalmieri at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 03:59:20 CET 2007


hi hans.

this screens is  a comercial product, or a special project?
do u have more info about it?

ah
is alex posada in the earstudio moveable type album?

hasta.

palmieri

2007/12/5, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
>
> In case anyone is interested, there is now a newspaper article with a
> video about this piece:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/arts/design/25vide.html
>
> .hc
>
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> >
> > If any of you happens to be in New York City, drop by the lobby of
> > the new New York Times building.  It's open to the public, and
> > there is a great installation there.  The sound is all powered by
> > Pd and the text handling and sequencing was done with Python.
> >
> > http://earstudio.com/projects/moveable_type.html
> >
> > Moveable Type
> > Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
> > (in progress, to be completed in fall, 2007)
> >
> > "Moveable Type, by New York artist Ben Rubin and U.C.L.A. associate
> > professor Mark Hansen, is an artwork commissioned for the ground-
> > floor lobby of The New York Times Building in New York City. When
> > complete, it will be a dynamic portrait of The Times. Statistical
> > methods and natural-language processing algorithms will be used to
> > parse the daily output of the paper (news, features, editorials)
> > and the archives, as well as the activity of visitors to
> > NYTimes.com (browsing, searching, commenting). The resulting
> > refracted view of The Times will be displayed on 560 vacuum-
> > fluorescent display screens installed in the lobby."
> >
> > I'll post more on this when I get it, like video would be nice...
> >
> > .hc
> >
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> >
> >                   ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
> >
> >
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