By Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
- It is responding to the conditions and challenges of social media.
- It cuts fragments of real time from thousands of online chat rooms and displays them as an art exhibit. It allows you to experience a snapshot of the internet and it manages to humanise would would usually appear to be computer data.
- You can either stand back and experience the exhibit as a whole or stand closer focusing on different strands.
- A form of art realism
- Questions of privacy can be raised as they are using peoples own private conversations without their permission.It is also unethical and unmonitored - when you watch the listening post you feel like you are intruding on peoples private conversations and lives. It feels wrong to do so but at the same time it is enchanting.
- The size of it reveals only a miniscule fraction of the true amount of people communicating online at that moment.
The Science Museum describes how the artwork is renowned as a masterpiece of electronic and contemporary art. How it is a monument to the ways we find to connect with each other and express our identities online.
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