{"id":9756,"date":"2012-04-30T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T05:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:55:34","slug":"nathaniel-stern-scott-kildall-tweets-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9756","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Stern &#038; Scott Kildall &#8211; <em>Tweets in Space<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/05_2012\/tweets_in_space.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/tweets_in_space.jpg' width=\"400\" alt=\"Tweets in Space\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/05_2012\/tweets_in_space.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"> Tweets in Space (2012, 52MB, 2:27 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern of Wikipedia Art return with another<br \/>\nproject both odd, lyrical and utopian.<br \/>\n&#8220;Tweets in Space&#8221; will beam Twitter discussions from participants worldwide<br \/>\ntowards GJ667Cc: a planet 22 light years away that apparently might support<br \/>\nearth-like life.<br \/>\nAnyone can take part, simply by adding #tweetsinspace to their tweets during<br \/>\ntwo performance times in September, when Stern and Kildall will be doing live<br \/>\nprojections at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in New Mexico,<br \/>\nand boldly tweeting where none have tweeted before.<\/p>\n<p>They say:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;This differs from every past alien transmission in that it is not only<br \/>\na public performance, but also performs a public: it is a real-time<br \/>\nconversation between hopeful peers sending their thoughts to everywhere<br \/>\nand nowhere.<br \/>\nOur soon-to-be alien friends will receive unmediated thoughts and responses<br \/>\nabout politics, philosophy, pop culture, dinner, dancing cats and everything<br \/>\nin between.<br \/>\nBy engaging the millions of voices in the Twitterverse and dispatching them<br \/>\ninto the larger Universe, &#8220;Tweets in Space&#8221; activates a potent discussion<br \/>\nabout communication and life that traverses beyond our borders or understanding.<br \/>\nIt promises more than could ever be delivered.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweets in Space (2012, 52MB, 2:27 min) Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern of Wikipedia Art return with another project both odd, lyrical and utopian. &#8220;Tweets in Space&#8221; will beam Twitter discussions from participants worldwide towards GJ667Cc: a planet 22 light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9756\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1,17,33,71,14,55,51,59,29,53,39,20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-arts","category-community","category-conceptual","category-exhibition","category-experimental","category-happening","category-installation","category-newmediaart","category-performance","category-science","category-strange","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11632,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/11632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}