Overview
Meantime is a software installation designed specifically for the 120×11 foot video wall at the IAC building in New York.
The system pulls portions of two popular, high-volume, user-generated content streams — Twitter and Flickr — and streams them into a realtime feed on a video wall. Meantime leverages the scale of the IAC’s video wall to convey the overwhelming volume and pace of content accumulation on the web.
Content accumulates in real-time for the piece’s duration (three minutes) in front of a rapidly ticking clock. The clock shows the current time as milliseconds elapsed since midnight January 1, 1970 — the format of the universal time stamp of the web. Since the content is streamed live from various APIs, no two runs are the same.
Images
Video
Components
- Custom software
- 8160 × 768 pixel large-format display
- Most Pixels Ever