Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen's Installation at the New York Times Building Moves Us
The idea to siphon the words and images from the New York Times’ 156-year archive onto 560 small screens at the paper’s new Renzo Piano headquarters seems like an innocent, obvious proposition—a printed paper, in a new age, “going digital.” But Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen‘s installation Moveable Type, which holds court in the lobby, has choreographed that content into an unimaginable art: It has made poetry out of the news. And it’s good.
To start, the algorithm crafted by Hansen (a statistician) is very picky about what it selects from the Times, and how those selections appear.
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