Interactive Net-Based Installation
Corona TV Bot
The Corona TV Bot addresses and reflects the coronavirus pandemic through social media posts. Using hashtags such as Coronavirus and COVID-19, the latest Twitter and YouTube news is woven into a wild 24/7 online TV show. Images, tweets and videos flicker across the screen in real time in this net art project. Time-based resources that combine both global professional broadcasts and very private content published by individuals about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. While as users of social networks we are typically presented with variations of our own opinions, the Corona TV Bot confronts us with a view beyond the boundaries of these echo chambers. There are no filters or censorship. The only criterion that counts is timeliness.
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 programme was recorded every 198 hours (every eight days at different times of the day and night) over a period of two years to capture the pandemic news from different parts of the world. These 6-hour historical resources can be compared in chronological order to illustrate cultural, economic and political factors, differences, developments and changes.
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10.000 Moving Cities – Mobile App
The web-based mobile app 10.000 Moving Cities – Mobile App showed that coronavirus was the number one topic of conversation in many places. No matter which location you chose on the world map, posts about the COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 pandemic were in the majority.
With this app, you can move between imaginary buildings via smartphone and tablet. At the same time, you take part in the digital communication streams and social movements of our time via superimposed social media posts. These are searched for in real time at a freely selectable location, processed and transferred to the virtual world.
Recorded on 24 March 2020, 16:35
10.000 Moving Cities – Same but Different, Mobile App
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