#fly tweet

[fckyeahnetart]

fly tweet

david bowen, 2012

"This device sends twitter messages based on the activities of a collection of houseflies. The flies live inside an acrylic sphere along with a computer keyboard. As the flies move and interact inside their home, they fly over the keys on the keyboard. These movements are collected in real-time via video. When a particular key is triggered by the flies, the key’s corresponding character is entered into a twitter text box. When 140 characters are reached or the flies trigger the “enter” key, the message containing the accumulated characters is tweeted."

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[cookiebellsy]

I wish I was that fly

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[slinetsk-blog]

fly tweet

In fly tweet David Bowen uses cutting edge technology and popular social networking sites to enable household flies to be content producers just like the humans that live around them.  The simulated environment is self sustaining and is equiped with full emenities so that the flies can live,thrive and produce energy that gets transmited into twitter messages that are then posted in real time.  The environment is equiped with motionsensor technology, transmitters and other technology that allows for the movements of the flies over the keyboad to be detected and recorded as typed text on twitter.  The cheracters acummulate untill the 140 cheracter capacity is reached or the flies activate the enter key, at which point the message gets transmited as real time news feed on twitter which is posted as a non sensicle collections of alphabetic cheracters.  Allthough amusing, this sort of inaccurate data collection along with other imperfections such as digitization errors all add to the inacurate collection of information that is accumulating in the biggest archeological database, the internet. 

[jp-squared]

David Bowen

Fly Tweet

(Video)

This device sends twitter messages based on the activities of a swarm of houseflies. The flies live inside an acrylic sphere along with a computer keyboard. As the flies move and interact inside their home they fly over the keys on the keyboard. These movements are collected in real-time via video. As a particular key is triggered by the flies the key’s corresponding character is entered into a twitter text box. When 140 characters are reached or the flies trigger the “enter” key the message containing the accumulated characters is tweeted. Thus twitter messages are sent in real-time based on the predilections of the swarm of flies.