Accidental News
Open it up, leave it, and get snowed under by the News!
I created Accidental News at the beginning of this year for an exhibition at the Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art and Design's Interaction Design Lab, Dundee.
Based around the theme of the accidental, it's a comment on the News headlines that we see everyday all around, how we meet with them and how they engages us. Some can grip us; others can pass us by. The headlines have different meaning to everyone they cross. We don't engage with headlines from far away like that of ones close to home, often, even hard to imagine them in the context of our own society and culture.
The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ - 'Updated every minute of every day'. Well, Accidental News works it's way around the world, displaying its news, returning to each location, every minute of every day!
It was displayed on different screens at the exhibition, each one with it's own element of randomness. It's not functional really, more a quick experiment. If I get the time, I would love to explore (or see) ways in which this form of presentation could be made into a functional News Reader.
Any comments would be very much appreciated! Thanks.
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