Urgently! infosculpture

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By Marc de Vinck
Posted 2008/06/02 @ 6:30 pm
Category Art & Design

Here is another fantastic artwork by Shulgin and Chernyshev. Unfortunately, this is all the information I found on YouTube.

Urgently! is an info-sculpture that explores such phenomena as information overload, Web 2.0 and information aesthetics. News coming from the Internet in real time, is thrown right away into a giant recycle bin in order to be updated at the next moment. A snake-like LED display coming in and out the bin shows the RSS feeds from various news channels. Urgently! metaphorically represents digital data – an endless flow of information that is updated every second and gets obsolete and trashed immediately after that. The piece is wirelessly connected to a computer network in order to retrieve the data. A user can select news channels and control update period.

Here is the YouTube link

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5 Responses to Urgently! infosculpture

Jayenkai on June 5th, 2008 at 2:37 am said:

God I hate modern “Art”..

That’s not art.
That’s a really useful piece of tech, being put to a really useless function!

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- Marc de Vinck on June 5th, 2008 at 6:21 am said:
  
  @Jayenkai
  
  Hmmm, useful piece of tech, and useless function? I see it in the complete opposite way. I see a useless piece of tech turned into something useful. I love the idea of us seeing it in a completely different way.
  
  Not to start a fight, (educational purposes only) but this is contemporary art. Modern Art is a period of time from approximately 1900 (or a few years earlier, say late 1880′s) to approximatley the 1970′s. Contemporary art is from 1970′s until right now.
  
  You hate Contemporary art, not Modern. Either way, it is a shame….but I totally respect your opinion.
  
  Have you seen this?
  
  http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/7200_bananas.html
  
  It seems to make a lot of people crazy, and maybe that is the point. It starts discussions and brings awareness.
  
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Windell Oskay on June 5th, 2008 at 6:09 pm said:

It’s *beautiful*.

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Carlos Afonso on June 11th, 2008 at 5:27 am said:

http://chef.artinfo.ru/eng_au_bio1.htm

Biography of one of the artists

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- Marc de Vinck on June 11th, 2008 at 5:57 am said:
  
  Thanks for the link.
  
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