This presentations explains one of the hacked together applications at the Code Camping event in Amsterdam.
http://www.hackdeoverheid.nl/2011/11/code-camping-klaar/
This concept is developed by Amran Anjum, Caro van Dijk, Erik van der Pluijm, Alexander Zeh.
The Urban Haiku - Random Poetry of Place
-creates an awareness of ‘the other’
-abstractly displays what people are talking about
-acts as a political or social thermometer
-without taking a side
-open to interpretation
-but also, and especially,
indifferent to interpretation
15. we built a twitter-fed urban haiku generator it displays words from tweets randomly into auto-poetry
16. we built a twitter-fed urban haiku generator it displays words from tweets randomly into auto-poetry it can be linked to ..a location ..a moment ..an event in order to grasp an atmosphere, a mood, what is going on?
17. we built a twitter-fed urban haiku generator it displays words from tweets randomly into auto-poetry it can be filtered ..by subject ..by source ..by group of people it can generate an instant debate between two people that otherwise never would talk
18. we built a twitter-fed urban haiku generator it displays words from tweets randomly into auto-poetry it can be filtered ..by subject ..by source ..by group of people it can be a thermometer for what is being said on a subject in a certain place and time
21. [instant debate mode] source a source b ... ... ... ... ... ... “ “ ” ” compare: two individuals, two events, a country and its president, a politician and a novel, ...
22. collection twitter mesh up text sensor +content +content +behavior haiku noise level air quality temperature ... epic novel newspaper constitution ... person place subject ... all haikus of a day, a place, an event, about a subject ... moment +interpretation
24. the urban haiku -random poetry of place- creates an awareness of ‘the other’ abstractly displays what people are talking about acts as a political or social thermometer
25. the urban haiku -random poetry of place- creates an awareness of ‘the other’ abstractly displays what people are talking about acts as a political or social thermometer without taking a side open to interpretation but also, and especially, indifferent to interpretation