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Twitter reactions to current affairs, translated into typographic choreographies.

A data-driven art installation, commissioned by the British Library for its major 2013 exhibition Propaganda: Power and Persuasion. Chorus examines how ideas and opinions spread via social networks, and their potential to influence public opinion.

Chorus is a data-driven art installation that translates Twitter reactions to current affairs into evocative typographic choreographies. Commissioned by the British Library for its major exhibition "Propaganda: Power and Persuasion”, the artwork examines how ideas and opinions spread via social networks, and their potential to influence public opinion.

With each act in the London Olympics Opening Ceremony, a burst of excitement spans the screen. From Obama’s re-election tweet “Four more years” we zoom out to reveal it as the most retweeted message in history. In the timespan from the Sandy Hook Shootings to Obama’s state of the union address, we observe the shifts of opinions among the US pro- and anti-gun lobbies.

Forming the atmospheric closing piece of the exhibition, the installation provokes questions about propagandistic patterns in contemporary digital communication. 

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