*glisten) HIVE — Simon Lysander Overstall

This video is a 03:04 excerpt from “Digital Animalities” exhibition, Toronto, 2018. For "Digital Animalities" (2018), the project was themed on birds.

*glisten) HIVE, generative Twitter feed installation, 2010 - present
A collaboration with Julie Andreyev

Commissioned by: Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

Production Team:

Julie Andreyev: concept, visual design
Simon Lysander Overstall: Max/MSP software, sound design
Hyuma Frankowski: installation screen design
Dennis Rosenfeld: software support
Derek Ing, Lindsay Braynen, Sha Li, Sheryl Yang: Research Assistants

Shown at:

2018 Digital Animalities, curated by Matthew Brower and Giovanni Aloi. CONTACT Gallery and the John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. November 1-30, 2018.
2014, Nov 20-Dec 12, “Urban Beeing”, Školská 28, Prague, Czech Republic.
2012 the 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition, Beijing, China.
2011 CHI2011 User in Flux workshop, Vancouver, May 7-12.
2010 CODE Live 2 (Cultural Olympiad’s Digital Edition), Vancouver Cultural Olympiad, Feb 4-21.

Supported by:

CODE Live 2 (Cultural Olympiad’s Digital Edition), Vancouver Cultural Olympiad;
Intersections Digital Studios, and Social + Interactive Media Centre, Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

This video is a recording from the exhibition “Urban Beeing”, Školská 28, Prague, Czech Republic, Nov 20-Dec 12, 2014. For this exhibition, the project was customized to focus on tweets about bees.