Newsdrip is a work by Anneke Pettican and Spencer Roberts that documents the shifting emphasis and subject matter of the online news media. It is as much an index of significance as it is of the ephemeral.
Our software reads the front pages of a number of online newspapers, counts the occurences of a variety of place names and then triggers a series of dripping devices based on this information. In the final installation the resulting ripples will highlight locations of current media significance by dripping onto the surface of two large-scale, counterposed maps.
In the early form of the project that is documented here, we ran into problems with the disambiguation of place names (e.g. Paris, France vs Paris, Texas). However, with the new found context sensitivity of recent developments in AI, we are now able to continue work on this project, and it has recently been reactivated.
Exhibited: ISIS, Newcastle, 2006. CultureLab, Newcastle, 2007.
Related Paper: 'Newsdrip: An (A)Political Flow'. Presented in 'Architecture in the Space of Flows' conference, University of Newcastle, 2007.
Positive Coverage: White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980. (Leonardo Books)
Technology: Processing, Arduino, PHP, Solenoid Valves.
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