Click::TWEET. A Telegraphic Sound Installation

Paul Dunham

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The representations that real-time, always-on, data-driven technologies will enhance society like never before promotes an historical inattention that ignores the entangled genealogy of contemporary social media. Within a media archaeological context, this work presents Twitter and the telegraph as related forms of social media. Click::TWEET, a sound installation utilising obsolete media technology, is presented as an audio-visual representation of a genealogy of connections between past media technologies and contemporary social media. Click::TWEET can be considered a return to the material representation of media through the physical re-presentation of Twitter messages transported as invisible digital media through the physical materiality of the telegraph key. By enabling the ability to hear the present through the past, Click::TWEET reconfigures the existence of the telegraph within a broader history of social media.

Citation

Paul Dunham. 2021. Click::TWEET. A Telegraphic Sound Installation. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.48c39866 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2021_installations_1,
 abstract = {The representations that real-time, always-on, data-driven technologies will enhance society like never before promotes an historical inattention that ignores the entangled genealogy of contemporary social media. Within a media archaeological context, this work presents Twitter and the telegraph as related forms of social media. Click::TWEET, a sound installation utilising obsolete media technology, is presented as an audio-visual representation of a genealogy of connections between past media technologies and contemporary social media. Click::TWEET can be considered a return to the material representation of media through the physical re-presentation of Twitter messages transported as invisible digital media through the physical materiality of the telegraph key. By enabling the ability to hear the present through the past, Click::TWEET reconfigures the existence of the telegraph within a broader history of social media.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {1},
 author = {Paul Dunham},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.48c39866},
 editor = {Rodolfo Cossovich and Demi Li},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 title = {Click::TWEET. A Telegraphic Sound Installation},
 track = {Installations},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.48c39866},
 year = {2021}
}