Touch Screen Art Installation about Dating

You’ve probably heard of Jonathan Harris, he’s the brilliance behind such websites as http://www.wefeelfine.org/ and http://universe.daylife.com/

Anyway- below is a cool clip of his one of his latest works, an installation with a 56” vertical high-res touch screen. It’s a year old, but I am surprised that I haven’t seen this yet! Imagine something like this as facebook app that pools all your friends and certain info about them in a conceptual way…

“I Want You To Want Me explores the search for love and self in the world of online dating.

Over the past several years, online dating has entered the mainstream, drawing over 50 million visitors per month.  En masse, people have condensed their identities into page or paragraph-long descriptions, sometimes complemented by a handful of photographs or peppered with responses to canned questions.  These personal profiles are modern messages in a bottle, short statements of self, telling not only who people are, but also what people want.  In these advertisements for new human relationships, people package and present their most loveable qualities to help complete their quest to be loved…

It was commissioned by New York’s Museum of Modern Art for their Design and the Elastic Mind show, and is a collaboration with Sep Kamvar.
The piece was installed at MoMA on February 14, 2008, Valentine’s Day.”
HIS SITE: http://www.number27.org/#iwytwm

Here it is, enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZUaXDm4qik

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