C'est N'est Pas Un Tweet
As an interactive installation with thousands of followers, I find the premise of tweeting houseflies intriguing and possibly beautiful. I know that others do not share this opinion because a housefly colony doesn’t lend itself easily to any aesthetic criteria. What made the piece intriguing and “artistic” enough for me?
On April 21 around 1:07 PM, @FlyColony tweeted, “KMCXKMCXKMCXKMCXKMXKMXKMXKMKMK8MKI8MKI8MK8MK8MK8MK8MK8MK8MK8MK8MK8MK8MK87
MK87MK87MK87MK87MK87MK87MK87KU87KU87U87U87U87U87U87U87U87U87U87U87.”
This was no ordinary tweet, it was delivered by a colony of houseflies living in an acrylic ball with a keyboard. The Twitter handle @flycolony was a record of their movements. Tweets went out whenever the keyboard recorded 140 characters of movement or when the flies triggered the return key. Their raison d’être was the work of artist David Bowen.
fly tweet from david bowen on Vimeo.
The “art” piece has its critiques.
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