Title: Sydney’s Siberia
secrettechnology.com/sydney/sibera.html
Detail: Infinitely builds interactive mosaics from poetic tiles.
It is not technology making our wires, nodes and swimming data streams, our ever growing networks, beautiful. Instead it is the stories/poetics, the forever coalescing narratives that form the inter/intranet into a vitally compelling mosaic. ……
To explore, simply mouse-over/navigate to an appealing square, click and click, read, contemplate connections and repeat.
Sydney’s Siberia recreates how networks build exploratory story-scapes through an interactive zooming/clicking interface. Using 121 poetic/story image tiles, the artwork dynamically generates mosaics, infinitely recombining to build new connections/collections based on the users movements. The images/texts come from exploring Newcastle, Australia as a patchwork, a complex mix of architectural tendrils, whose stories extend to and are strained by the overshadowing behemoth of Sydney to the West. And as each new grid is formed, the reader must search for what they haven’t seen, mining in a digital Siberia.
