Public Tweets

Aaron Cohen, Angelos Floros

Exhibited: p-public festival, Splantzia Square, Chania, 7-9 June 2013

An installation that composes, in real time, the flows of data produced collectively by the users of p-public 2013 on Twitter.

What arrives is not curated and not authored: it is whatever the participants of a festival happen to be writing while the festival is happening. The work takes that stream and gives it a physical form in the square where the festival is taking place — video projection and interactive lighting, installed in Splantzia Square, so that the messages people are sending from inside the event are returned to the same public space they were sent from.