Not shown at the V&A museum, but part of the Decode exhibition is an exhibit called 'The Listening Post' by artists Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin. This is a wall made up of hundreds of small screens of which uncensored snapshots taken from real-time, public internet chat rooms and bulletins individually scroll across one of the tiny screens. The Listening Post 'sings' various snapshots and the whole screen allows you to experience an extraordinary snapshot of the internet and gain a great sense of the humanity behind the data.
After researching this piece, I've found out that it is on show at the Science Museum until the end of 2010 and I've become really intruiged by it and would love to see it in person. The Listening Post plays with a number of our personal senses as it draws you in to watch and listen to it very carefully in order to not miss anything.
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