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Listening Post

June 3, 2006 through May 20, 2007

The installation Listening Post by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin analyzes all the text—typed just moments before—by tens of thousands of people in Internet chat rooms around the world. It presents them as six different “movements,” combining musical tones, sound effects, synthesized voice, and scrolling text.

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, Listening Post (detail), 2002-2005. Supporting hardware and software, 146 x 233 x 31 inches. Collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, gift of Deborah and Andy Rappaport and the Lipman Family Foundation.

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, Listening Post, 2002-2005. Supporting hardware and software, 146 x 233 x 31 inches. Collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, gift of Deborah and Andy Rappaport and the Lipman Family Foundation.