tweetleak
current location:
52.278944, 8.03955652.529583,13.401818
thanks to st. oberholz for hosting tweetleak!
Tweetleak, a monolithic anthracithe-colored pole, which is placed in a public place, aggregates tweets from nearby and "materializes" them. The collected fragments from people's lives on the web leave the digital public space on adhesive paper strips. being taken away by other individuals, they are distributed in physical space, eventually being placed in another context in another environment.
After a tweet has been printed out the author is notified. There is also a notification via twitter when the printed tweet has been taken away. The loss of control over one's data is illustrated: after a short period of time, the user won't be able to track his tweet.
