The Archive as an Interactive Installation



The core of the install­a­tion is a phys­ical data sculp­ture consisting of 17 objects, each repres­enting all Tweets we have collected during one day of the Olympics. Mapped onto this phys­ical sculp­ture we have then projected indi­vidual heat maps for the most inter­esting themes we have iden­ti­fied while observing emoto during the Games. Users were able to navigate through these themes using an inter­active controller and thus explore our archive. The second key element in the install­a­tion was the 9.50 meter long Sentigraph repres­enting giving a high-level over­view over London2012 as seen by emoto.