{"id":428,"date":"2009-05-12T12:12:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T10:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/temporaer.net\/2009-05-12\/twitter-installation_clouds-for-bad-bankers-developed-by-transforming-freedom-2\/"},"modified":"2014-06-13T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T18:51:15","slug":"twitter-installation_clouds-for-bad-bankers-developed-by-transforming-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temporaer.net\/en\/2009-05-12\/twitter-installation_clouds-for-bad-bankers-developed-by-transforming-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter installation: Clouds for Bad Bankers <br \/>(developed by Transforming Freedom)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digiom.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/12\/twitter-installation-clouds-for-bad-bankers-developed-by-transforming-freedom\/\">digiom<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The scope of artistic interventions that become possible with Twitter is probably immeasurable. At <a href=\"http:\/\/transformingfreedom.com\/\">Transforming Freedom<\/a>, we\u2019re trying to get our fingers dirty as well and have set up a very, very low tech installation at the Quarter for Digital Culture (QDK) that also involves Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>But it also involves human technology, or rather, the human-as-technology, which is one of the least reliable technological systems available to date. Think Seveso, think Tchernobyl, think the current economic crisis, of course (the upside of this miserable technology that is mankind: the perfect simulation of our flaw-ridden world is impossible, we will therefore never be fed into the matrix, as the matrix wouldn\u2019t be nor progess without us).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ta--c\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full o--c wp-image-1373 o__blazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"\/\/digiom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/badbanker01.jpg?w=450&amp;h=337\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Clouds for Bad Bankers\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"o--c\" src=\"\/\/digiom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/badbanker01.jpg?w=450&amp;h=337\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Clouds for Bad Bankers\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Our installation, the working title of which I hereby proclaim as \u201cClouds for Bad Bankers\u201d, is thus not only based on the magic that is the Twitter API in conjunction with hashtags, it also requires that we, the enablers at <a href=\"http:\/\/transformingfreedom.com\/\">Transforming Freedom<\/a>, regularly jump into action, that we examine our dedication to the project. It is, however, already apparent that we will fail miserably.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here is the layout of the installation: We have set up an ugly, bulky CRT monitor [Ann.VE: my old one!] on which a twitterwall is running, searching for tweets tagged with <a>#tfeet<\/a> (as in: Transforming Freedom + tweet). In the same room, there is a ladder at the top of which the <em>cloud of unfathomable wisdom<\/em>, which also serves as TF\u2019s logo, is attached. At the bottom of the ladder, there is cardboard figure, a banker man who seeks to drink from the cloud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1372 alignnone\" title=\"Clouds for Bad Bankers\" src=\"http:\/\/digiom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/badbankers03.jpg?w=450&amp;h=337\" alt=\"Clouds for Bad Bankers\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But he needs to be fed to climb the ladder, to ascend towards the cloud, and he lives on the mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/twitterwall.me\/tfeet\">#tfeet tagged tweets<\/a>. Since our li\u2019l bad banker is made of cardboard, he relies on us, the enablers, to move further up the ladder \u2013 and we will do so whenever a certain number of tfeets have been accumumlated. The Twitterwall is currently at six tfeets \u2013 as soon as 20 tfeets have been reached, the enablers will have to leave the place they\u2019re at and race towards the QDK, move the man one rung further up the ladder\u2026 I guess it\u2019s obvious who the weakest link is in this installation.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding this challenge: We\u2019ve built in a further complication, to bring in some confusion, to egg us on a little, but also to make things a little less no-nonsense. You think you get it, but actually, you don\u2019t \u2013 just like the economic crisis. So here it goes: After a critical-mass tweet has been posted, we\u2019ve got three hours to make our banker move \u2013 if we stay within the time limit, we get a bonus, but for every minute we miss from these three hours, we lose \u20ac 1.000.000,-, so we win what remains of a max of \u20ac 180.000.000,- Our currency: a cauldron full of Powerpoint clip art gold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1374\" title=\"Clouds for Bad Bankers 3\" src=\"http:\/\/digiom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/badbankers04.jpg?w=450&amp;h=600\" alt=\"Clouds for Bad Bankers 3\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to see us run \u2013 add <a href=\"http:\/\/twitterwall.me\/tfeet\">#tfeet<\/a> to your tweets often! No worries if it\u2019s out if context \u2013 the banker will take anything he can to get a taste of the cloud!<\/p>\n<p>Btw, anybody reading this who can show us a way to reliably count hashtagged tweets, allowing us to pinpoint e.g., tweet no. 20 \u2013 ideas?<\/p>\n<p>The twinstallation will be activated  May 12, and it will continue until March 23. If need be for a second banker, we\u2019ll build one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1375\" title=\"Clouds for Bad Bankers Final\" src=\"http:\/\/digiom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/badbankers05.jpg?w=450&amp;h=600\" alt=\"Clouds for Bad Bankers Final\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>digiom writes: The scope of artistic interventions that become possible with Twitter is probably immeasurable. 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