Jason asked people to post something about the upcoming ELO conference. Shamefully self-promoting myself I thought I could post something about the installation I will be presenting there. It’s called reRead. Information about it is available at http://www.littlepig.org.uk/reRead/reread.htm Simon

The Living Newspapers
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Hide and Seek exhibition
February 16 – March 12 & June 1 – 25

Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey
wings by Claire Ashley

The Living Newspapers is a live installation consisting of pairs of ‘museum visitors’ seemingly engaged in pedestrian conversation. These conversations are actually comprised of real-time data harvested from the social networking environment, Twitter. The performers in The Living Newspapers act as subtle embodiments of the collective voice of social discourse.