Check out our recently installed piece, the ‘Future of the Book’, at the Berkeley Center for New Media window (next to the free speech cafe). It is a mixed media electronic sculpture, built in collaboration with Judith Donath and Martin Wattenberg. Initially commissioned for the Boston Book Festival in 2009, we reconstructed the piece for BCNM, where it will be in display until August. The piece includes three unique visualizations that display content related to books and reading:
Three glowing screen are set amidst arching piles of ghostly pale books. One continuously reconfigures Twitter posts about reading, on another bouncing letters randomly settle into place, revealing pointed quotes about reading drawn from well-known books, while the third uses the viewer’s image to trace out a series of related passages.
Photos below:
more project information here.