medium: live coding performance installation, run time 2 hours.
If you want to have a media divination by sister0, you need take her an object that you have a personal connection to. Then she can reveal your place in the manifold of time... YOu also disclose your name, date of birth and give an image or a personal item with which a semiotic analysis is made. Via an interactive shell a networked database is retrieved, transformed and mined for events in the past, present and future. The textual data processed is the year pages available from the English version of Wikipedia, the popular open publishing on-line encyclopedia. From the point of view of the algorithm it retrieves, transform and mine the textual data. This is employed by a set of well known software installed by default on most of the *nix distributions. After Divination [[REPORT]] - example [pdf] is printed out that you can take with you.
This is an interactive shell, live coding performance installation.
Latest version is media divination 2.1.2
Tested on Linux 2.6.20 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Here is the
CODE in case you want to touch its inner mechanism.start with ./mediadiv.sh and you will get an idea.
and the
screen shot:
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