This presentations explains one of the hacked together applications at the Code Camping event in Amsterdam. http://www.hackdeoverheid.nl/2011/11/code-camping-klaar/ This concept is developed by Amran Anjum, Caro van Dijk, Erik van der Pluijm, Alexander Zeh. The Urban Haiku - Random Poetry of Place -creates an awareness of ‘the other’ -abstractly displays what people are talking about -acts as a political or social thermometer -without taking a side -open to interpretation -but also, and especially, indifferent to interpretation

1. CITY LIKE HAIKU

2. CITY MAKE HAIKU

3. CITY MAKE YOU

4. LIFE MAKE YOU

5. LIFE PLAY YOU

6. LIFE PLAY COFFEE

7. TOWN PLAY COFFEE

8. TOWN SEE COFFEE

9. TOWN SEE RAIN

10. FILM SEE RAIN

11. FILM WANT RAIN

12. WHAT WANT RAIN

13. WHAT IS RAIN

14. WHAT IS THIS?

15. we built a twitter-fed urban haiku generator it displays words from tweets randomly into auto-poetry

16. we built a twitter-fed urban haiku generator it displays words from tweets randomly into auto-poetry it can be linked to ..a location ..a moment ..an event in order to grasp an atmosphere, a mood, what is going on?

17. we built a twitter-fed urban haiku generator it displays words from tweets randomly into auto-poetry it can be filtered ..by subject ..by source ..by group of people it can generate an instant debate between two people that otherwise never would talk

18. we built a twitter-fed urban haiku generator it displays words from tweets randomly into auto-poetry it can be filtered ..by subject ..by source ..by group of people it can be a thermometer for what is being said on a subject in a certain place and time

19. HOW IS THIS?

21. [instant debate mode] source a source b ... ... ... ... ... ... “ “ ” ” compare: two individuals, two events, a country and its president, a politician and a novel, ...

22. collection twitter mesh up text sensor +content +content +behavior haiku noise level air quality temperature ... epic novel newspaper constitution ... person place subject ... all haikus of a day, a place, an event, about a subject ... moment +interpretation

23. WHY IS THIS?

24. the urban haiku -random poetry of place- creates an awareness of ‘the other’ abstractly displays what people are talking about acts as a political or social thermometer

25. the urban haiku -random poetry of place- creates an awareness of ‘the other’ abstractly displays what people are talking about acts as a political or social thermometer without taking a side open to interpretation but also, and especially, indifferent to interpretation

26. WHERE IS THIS?

27. the urban haiku -for example- what’s up now at.. ..occupy amsterdam ..the binnenhof ..the tahrir square in egypt ..the over overhoeks tower?!

28. the urban haiku -enigmatic-

29. HAIKU APPEARS HERE

30. WHAT IS NEXT?

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