Interactive Net-Based Installation
Corona TV Bot
The Corona TV Bot thematises and reflects the Coronavirus Pandemic through social media contributions. On hashtags like Coronavirus and COVID-19, the latest Twitter and YouTube news are interwoven into a wild TV show, 24/7 online. Images, tweets and videos flicker across the screen in real time in this net art project. Time-based resources that combine both worldwide professional broadcasts and very private content published by individuals on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
While, as users of social networks we typically only ever see variants of our own opinions mirrored back to us on social media, TV Bot is intended to confront us with views beyond the bounds of these echo-chambers, due to it universally picking up all searched for hashtag posts on a non-critical basis.
Corona TV Bot, 24/7 online
Settings, runs with Firefox and Safari.
Recordings of the 24/7 online net art work Corona TV Bot.
During the coronavirus pandemic, a 6-hour screen capture was recorded every 198 hours (every eight days at different times of the day and night) over two years to capture the pandemic news from different parts of the world. These 6-hour historical resources can be confronted with each other in a time-based sequence, for example, to make cultural, economic and political factors, differences, development and change comprehensible.
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10.000 Moving Cities – Mobile App
The new media art VR mobile app 10.000 Moving Cities clearly shows that coronavirus pandemic is currently the number one topic in many places. No matter which location on the world map is selected in the VR mobile app, the majority of posts addresses the COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
With the new media art mobile app one moves between the imaginary buildings via smartphone and tablet. At the same time one participates in the digital communication streams and social movements of our time by means of inserted Social Media Posts. To a chosen city, these posts are searched in real time, processed and transferred into the virtual world.
Recorded on 24 March 2020, 16:35
10.000 Moving Cities – Same but Different, Mobile App
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