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Live streams

For the Expire installation at Fonderie Darling, I set up a web cam to capture the event, which people could watch from anywhere with an internet connection using free video streaming from UStream. I also implemented a Twitter feed into the artist's site so that anyone tweeting the word "expire" would become part of the installation and invariably comment on it as a concept. The artist was working with ideas of "presentness" in contrast to technological overload through social media, and the web stream both contributed to this and, through its own ephemerality, undid it.

Process
Web
Print
Social
Mobile
Art
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