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onedotzero created a bespoke installation for Twitter at Cannes Lions Festival 2015.

Twitter commissioned onedotzero to create a table that visualizes key Twitter campaigns from the past year. Debuting at the Tweet Suite at Cannes Lions 2015, the work weighs in at a hefty 500kg and features 204 electromagnets, 3000 ball bearings, and 25 layers of CNC cut timber, pulled together by a team of 20 craftsmen over six weeks.

In true onedotzero style, the project was a collaborative effort, combining talent from the Interactive Architecture Lab of the Bartlett, UCL, with the strategic thinking and data science of the team at Twitter. The Twitter Data Visualisation table combines a mix of skills, tools and processes including robotics, engineering, electromagnetism, CNC, carpentry, code and data visualisation.

For more information visit: onedotzero.com/projects/twitter

pulse.. is a live-visualization of recent emotional expressions, written on private weblogs hosted at wordpress.com. Weblog entries are compared to a list of emotions, which refers to Robert Plutchik’s seminal book Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion published in 1980. Plutchik describes eight basic human emotions in his book: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. He developed a diagram in which these eight emotions, together with their weakened and amplified counterparts, form a three dimensional cone, consisting of 24 areas. The cone is the basic form of pulse, which can enlarge in the 24 directions of the different emotions. Each time an emotion tag, or a synonym of it, is found in a recent blog entry, the shape-shifting object transforms itself in such a way that the new volume represents a piece of the overall current emotional condition of surfers on the Internet.

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Jasper Elings fait partie de ces trublions de l’informatique et plus particulièrement d’internet. Ces jeunes personnes qui, derrière leur écran, passent la journée à essayer de dénicher les anomalies du monde binaire. La visite de son site web dépeint un artiste aux inspirations multiples et aux idées à la fois géniales et farfelues. Le néerlandais s’attache à tous les médiums : du photo-montage au .gif, de la vidéo à la collection d’images. On ne saurait déceler une quelconque cohérence entre chacun de ses travaux mais on comprend très rapidement que son cynisme et son regard ironique sur la technologie est présent dans toutes ses pièces. Si vous avez déjà participé à des expositions de web-art, vous avez sûrement déjà croisé ses œuvres, la liste interminable des groupes shows auxquels Jasper Elings fut convié se situe en bas à gauche de sa page.