Exhibition
A series of artworks using live real time news feeds by artist Stanza made using custom made software and output as large scale digital prints.
Context
Screen scraping: Is a technique in which a computer program extracts text data from the display output of another program, ignoring all binary data (usually images or multimedia data). The program doing the scraping is called a screen scraper.
News: Any new information or current events. The reporting of news falls into the field of journalism. News is often reported by a variety of sources, such as newspapers, television and radio programs, wire services, and web sites. News reporting is a type of journalism, typically written or broadcast in news style. Most news is investigated and presented by journalists and can be distributed to various sites via news agencies.
Mashup: (web application hybrid), a website or web application that combines content from more than one source.