[NetBehaviour] Breaking News
marc garrett
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Thu Sep 24 22:51:26 CEST 2009
Breaking News is a second project under the umbrella thematic of
INFORMATIONALISM - the saturation of data in our day to day lives. The
initial project is On Transmitting Ideology, presented in Berlin as part
of Transmediale.08: CONSPIRE and in Philadelphia at Vox Populi, both in
2008.
http://www.ambriente.com/breakingNews/
Breaking News is a two-part project about the re-interpretation of the
ceaseless data we call “current events.” The first part is a news
literacy workshop initially conducted in Buffalo at the Gloria J. Parks
Community Center. Children between the ages of seven and eight years old
discussed what they consider news, how it disseminates, and recent
newsworthy events. They learned to visually deconstruct a newspaper and
then reinterpret articles and headlines into drawings and collages.
Beyond the pedagogical purpose of the workshop, it served as a means to
gather content that informed the second part of the project: the gallery
installation.
Based on the premise that we live in a media-saturated world, the
project seeks to investigate how young children digest major world
events such as Obama’s election, Michael Jackson’s death, Swine Flu -
inescapable "realities" that momentarily consume media outlets and seep
into our lives. The content generated by the children in the workshop is
integrated into the news media visualization presented as part of the
gallery installation. The visualization itself consists of a textual
feed of current headlines accompanied by computer-rendered illustrations
of personalities who have established an understanding of news media in
the United States. The illustrations and text help generate new
interpretations of what we consider "the news."
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