The Science Museum
Exhibition Road
SW7
0807.870.4868
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Listening Post
- When
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19 Feb 2008 – 19 Feb 2009
Daily (10am–6pm)
- Where
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Tube: South Kensington
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Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the Science Museum. Asking "What would 100,000 people chatting online sound like?", the exhibit assembles computer-synthesised voices with displays of live-streaming text from unrestricted chat rooms, forums and blogs. Fusing art and technology, the experiment in cyber voyeurism provokes questions about our current use of online-communication platforms and the direction of future applications. A forewarning: after peering into the uncensored aggregate, you may end up changing your own privacy settings.
