Jake Elwes
Digital Whispers, 2016
Mixed media (raspberry pi computer, LCD screen, speaker and custom program)
60 x 50 x 10 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 4 in
20 min loop
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 4 in
20 min loop
Edition 1 of 3 + 2AP
Copyright The Artist
Further images
Tweets in a 2 mile radius of the pieces’ installation are displayed on an LCD screen while the computer simultaneously whispers the tweets as a live performance. 'I think I...
Tweets in a 2 mile radius of the pieces’ installation are displayed on an LCD screen while the computer simultaneously whispers the tweets as a live performance.
"I think I just had the foresight after showing the work at new contemporaries to create a program to record an offline version in case the piece stopped working in the future, so I wrote some code to record the tweets and timings and then left it running for a full week in 2019 - there wasn't a particular significance other than it being a more simple time back then (pre-covid and Elon closing Twitter API)." - Jake Elwes
"I think I just had the foresight after showing the work at new contemporaries to create a program to record an offline version in case the piece stopped working in the future, so I wrote some code to record the tweets and timings and then left it running for a full week in 2019 - there wasn't a particular significance other than it being a more simple time back then (pre-covid and Elon closing Twitter API)." - Jake Elwes
