The hugely talented Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar recently created this interactive art installation for MoMA. It allows people to see how we interact on dating sites - using data updated every few hours.
Blue balloons are males and the red are females. The dark balloons are "old people", while the brighter ones are the young ones.
The piece was installed on... yes what else... Valentine's day.
It was divided into 5 main "movements": "Who I am", "What I want", "Snippets", "Matchmaker", "Breakdowns"
Update: Here is another video
I really "love" these interactive art installations, but I wish they would turn it into a web application...
Head over the the "I Want You to Want Me" website for more images
(via Information Aesthetics, video via YouTube)
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Ilina - Cool! I have not been able to visit it myself (mostly because I live 3,700 miles away...)
But, I think you are right about the missing purpose. I do not think there is much point to it form a usability perspective - artistic yes, but not much else.
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I saw this last week in MoMa... Played with it a little. It was pretty cool and pleasantly interactive, but... it made me wonder if there is any message or purpose to it. So much talent and time must have gone into it, but is it any improvement on the usability and efficiency of the current tools that are available to people to achieve the same tasks? Not quite convinced.