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Angelo Plessas is a net artist whose works predominately deal with color, interactivity and sound. “Re-Twittering Machine” (2012) caught my attention because of the ever growing hype around social media’s role in social unrest like the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement. The interactive drawing, reminiscent of the “Twittering Machine,” by Paul Klee (see image below) reposts tweets from Twitter which incorporate the word ‘Freedom.’ I got Plessas to talk with me a little about this new and poignant piece, which he describes as a:
Software Bot which lives on the screen and is programmed to collect tweets with the word ‘freedom’ in real time. My Bot could be an Arab, he could be a Greek or he could be a Polynesian. He could be a revolutionary in Tahrir Square or on Wall Street, or a teenage girl who complains that her parents wont allow her to change her hair color...
read more : http://hyperallergic.com/53272/re-twittering-machine-angelo-plessas
Via Jacques Urbanska
