About Falling Times
Falling Times is an everlasting and growing real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times and, simultaneously, the fall of our western decadent civilization.
Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time and thus are the biggest contributors to the infoEcological disaster.
In our visualization we reduce the content only to headlines and key words that appear in the news the most often. These reduced news are translated into a dynamic pictogram language that is considered to be universal and instantly understandable.
Participate!
Help to create collective news by defining the meaning of the falling icons. You are creating the news. You are the newsmaker. Your news are the true news. By adding a keyword or a sequence of key words to an icon you select which news will be displayed. You are free how many icons you choose to define. Have fun.
YOU_ser: Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten
The exhibition YOU_ser: Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten invites the visitor to become an integral part of the art works. For the works shown here constitute themselves only in the act of reception by the viewer and include in their conception his active participation in the process of creation. The ZKM | Media Museum, known world-wide for its unique interactive collection, will be completely re-conceived for this exhibition and supplemented by spectacular new works. It offers a look into a future that will be determined by emancipated consumers.