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Thomson & Craighead on ‘London Wall: WC2’

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Artists Thomson & Craighead introduce their work 'London Wall: WC2' composed of public tweets.

Thomson and Craighead

Artists Thomson and Craighead

Artists Thomson & Craighead have composed their work London Wall: WC2 entirely of publicly available tweets from around Somerset House, ranging in tone from the deadly serious to the plain silly. They make the point that the work was “an attempt to show ourselves to ourselves” and that the work is a collaboration with an albeit unwitting general public.

Find out how they decided on which tweets to pick and what the rational was behind their decision-making process in the video below:

Can you spot any of your own tweets?

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Big Bang Data ran from 03 Dec 2015 — 20 Mar 2016