Throughout time, humans have sought ways to express themselves in public ways that are both ephemeral and permanent, informal and formal, instant and timeless.
Whisper harvests local and global trending words from public resources and shared datasets to create a repository of words that is displayed as a real-time ‘data-haiku’ whisper generator. Whisper weaves together diverse perspectives and interests to generate an amalgam of competing or complementary ideas.
Date: 2017 (Proposal)
Dimensions: 35’ x 32’ x 4”
Materials: Corian, Acrylic, LEDs, electronics
Lead Artists: Jason Kelly Johnson & Nataly Gattegno (Futureforms)
Artist Team: Jason Kelly Johnson, Nataly Gattegno with Jeffrey Maeshiro, Ripon deLeon.
