POETICAL CRISIS

PARSONS MFA DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY THESIS (2009) Poetical Crisis is a screen based art installation that uses live online news feeds, data processing, and typographic visual imagery to combine Fine Arts with computation in a gallery piece focused on crisis news media. As a real time art piece, it lives on an internet connection to RSS data feeds which is scrapes and mines to display changing visuals. It reveals contemporary society's complex manifestation of crisis, as it stands are the forefront of our consciousness, due to the immediacy of news and prevalence of media sensationalism and hype. This installation was exhibited at the 2009 Parsons MFA Design and Technology Symposium.