I Wanted to See All of the News From Today amasses the front page of hundreds of newspapers from around the world and displays these images within the screen space of a single webpage. Continuously gathering data from the newspapers without pause, the work reduces each paper to an image, a node in a networked text - totalized, overwhelming, and illegible.
Launched in 2007 and viewed online by over 56,000 people to date (April 2011), collecting more than 600 newspapers originating in six continents, continuously gathering data from these sources without pause. These pages are organized to form a massive grid that references the familiar "image gallery" and "array of thumbnails" that are associated with managing digital information assets but subverts these organizational frameworks towards different ends. The examination of the front page, as multitude, neutralizes the newspaper as a document and transforms the entire medium into a regimented gestalt.
Also as prints
Shown at
Several Interruptions, SCEMFA, University College London
FILE 11 – Electronic Language International Festival, Brazil
How We Became Metadata, IMCC, University of Westminster, London, UK (as prints)
14th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Serbia
Collaborators 2, ROOM, London, UK (as prints)
Web Biennial 10, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey
NETescopio, MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain
FILE RIO 2009, Brazil
Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
FILE Hipersonica Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IDFA DocLab 2008
FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
FILE Hipersonica Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Hz Journal #10, Fylkingen