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Located within Boston’s historic (brick) core, and using the history of Boston as example, this kinetic, site-specific, public art installation is a humorous commentary on our use and trust of the internet for learning.

The project makes tangible (physical), and spatial, the experience of unfiltered, virtual information found on the internet: the disconnected, true/false, incomplete and tangential “facts” we are exposed to on a daily basis, that lead to chaotic, fictive, composite memories: a lot of time; a lot of data; a lot of spelling errors; a lack of a conclusion; gossip. What do you remember from surfing the web? This is how we learn today.

The quotes on the bricks come from conducting a standard, typical search on the internet. The search started with the key phrase “history of Boston,” and evolved from there to information found in the initial discoveries (webpages), such as “Cambridge Agreement,” “puritan,” and so on, as they generically struck interest.

Whatever information was found was placed on the bricks. (Detailed image of all the text.) Sometimes this information was false, at other times it had absolutely nothing to do with the subject (the history of Boston), and sometimes it had a mere tangential relationship to it.