david bowen's tweeting houseflies at tower’s art gallery

david bowen’s tweeting housefliesimage © david bowen

david bowentower’s art gallery, brusselsapril 11th to april 21st, 2013

developed by american artist david bowen, the ‘fly tweet’ device sends twitter messages based on the activities of a collection of houseflies. living inside an acrylic sphere along with a computer keyboard, the insects move and interact inside their home, landing over the buttons on the keyboard. when a particular key is triggered by the flies, the corresponding character is entered into a twitter text box. when 140 characters are reached or ‘ENTER’ is triggered, the message containing the accumulated characters is broadcast via twitter in real-time.

‘fly tweet’video courtesy david bowen

the ‘fly tweet’ device sends twitter messages based on the activities of a collection of housefliesimage © david bowen

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