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Dorothy Leung

New Media Artist

Voices

Built on Winter 2019

The experience

My project is a program on Processing. I am proposing this artwork because I come from Hong Kong. The theme is based on the current issues happening in Hong Kong. The people of Hong Kong are fighting their democracy with their government since March, and their situation is getting worse.

The layout of my proposed artwork is the news about Hong Kong, and the data based on people’s comments about Hong Kong on Twitter will be used. When more people commented the same word on Twitter, that word would be faded away slowly in the news.

My intention of creating this work is to show freedom of speech in Hong Kong is demolishing. In the real life, when people in Hong Kong are more devoted to this issue, they got disappeared for some reasons. My concept relates to the idea of data-driven art because the sources come from the comments on Twitter and News API. The comments on Twitter represent the voices of people. When they faded away visually, which means their voices are vanished. The news is the material that let the audiences to know the context in this piece because not everyone is aware of this issue. Moreover, the updatability of the news will depend on News API.

The process of building Voices

Voices is built on Processing with the sources from Twitter and News API.