"Medals (After Stella)" is an Olympics-themed piece pulling its composition cues from Twitter, presenting a changing array of concentric squares in gold, silver, and bronze. The piece searches Twitter for recent tweets containing the words "olympics", "medal", and at least one of the three medal colors. New qualifying tweets appear in the outer-most ring and are subsequently pushed towards the center. The composition will likely change most frequently during the two weeks of the London games this summer. The visual motif is borrowed from artist Frank Stella, whose black, aluminum, and copper paintings jumped to mind when I was when thinking about medals (and metals) and olympic rings.
Thanks to Donovan Buck for his scripting expertise.
Full Description
"Medals (After Stella)" is an Olympics-themed piece pulling its composition cues from Twitter, presenting a changing array of concentric squares in gold, silver, and bronze. The piece searches Twitter for recent tweets containing the words "olympics", "medal", and at least one of the three medal colors. New qualifying tweets appear in the outer-most ring and are subsequently pushed towards the center. The composition will likely change most frequently during the two weeks of the London games this summer. The visual motif is borrowed from artist Frank Stella, whose black, aluminum, and copper paintings jumped to mind when I was when thinking about medals (and metals) and olympic rings.
Thanks to Donovan Buck for his scripting expertise.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2010
- Submitted to ArtBase: Friday Jul 27th, 2012
- Original Url: http://www.medalsafterstella.com/
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Work Credits:
- Brian Piana, concept, design, html & CSS
- Donovan Buck, javascript, jQuery
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