Coverage. Download. Breaking. These are ordinary words that you will find all over the news. But when they are individually and massively spelled out in water, each getting a few seconds to captivate the audience before they vanish as a waterfall and are then replaced by another word, they are something else entirely: art. “Surface Tension: The Future of Water,” a thought-provoking art exhibit at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea, ties together visual art and technology while educating people on worldly matters related to water. Unfortunately, Eyebeam is no longer housing this exhibition (which originally came from the Science Gallery in Dublin), but you can check online to see where it is traveling to next.
Upon walking into Eyebeam, the aforementioned Bit.Fall (see photo above) was the first thing to catch my eye. The words appearing in the waterfall were the most searched words on the New York Times website at the moment. The way the words could be streamed and then created almost instantaneously was similar to the technology of an inkjet printer. [click to continue….]
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