Stefanie Suk – Looking Outwards – 01

Bit.Fall, designed by an artist Julius Popp, is a computerized art installation that releases water droplets at specific intervals to create words extracted from the internet’s current stream of trending topics. In this installation, computer program plays a key role in filtering keywords based on a statistical algorithm from the current newsfeed, then transferring the information to the control unit to create droplets at specific times. This installation caught my attention as it combines both nature (through gravity to make the water drops fall) and culture (through news feed for social attention) into a single piece of artwork. What I admire the most about Bit.Fall is the strange correlation between water, a natural medium, and word, a cultural information, combined together to create a single collaborative installation. This project can further inspire the art and values of combination between nature and men.