David Troy at the MoMA

David Troy's Twittervision and Flickrvision projects opened at the MoMA this week as part of an exhibit called Design and the Elastic Mind.

From the show's website:

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale.

The exhibition will highlight examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design. Of particular interest will be the exploration of the relationship between design and science and the approach to scale.

Dave's projects maps in near-real-time people's Twitter announcements and uploads to the Flickr photo sharing site. (Anyone interested in art based upon Flickr should also check out my Self-Portrait, Anthroptic, and Mirror projects).