10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time

Submitted by Simon Brousseau on Mon, 05/31/2010 - 14:25

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10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time est une oeuvre qui permet la visualisation des archives de différents sites journalistiques. À chaque heure, l'oeuvre scanne les fils RSS de différentes sources (Reuters World News, BBC World Edition et New York Times International News) et extrait des mots-clés qui sont représentatifs des grandes lignes des nouvelles diffusées. Par cette analyse, le logiciel extrait ce qui paraît être les 100 nouvelles les plus importantes de l'heure, réduites à un mot clé. À ces mots clés correspondent 100 images, qui sont extraites des mêmes sites d'information. Le site conserve l'ensemble de ces archives depuis 2004. Il est donc possible de saisir de façon très intuitive, et visuelle, les différentes nouvelles qui ont été publiées sur ces sites depuis plusieurs années.

L'œuvre est actuellement disponible sur Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20151009220640/http://tenbyten.org/), archivée en date du 9 octobre 2015.

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«The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life. 10x10 is ever-changing, ever-growing, quietly observing the ways in which we live. It records our wars and crises, our triumphs and tragedies, our mistakes and milestones. When we make history, or at least the headlines, 10x10 takes note and remembers. Each hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time. Clicking on a single frame allows us to peer a bit deeper into the story that lies behind the image. In this way, we can dart in and out of the news, understanding both the individual stories and the ways in which they relate to each other. 10x10 runs with no human intervention, autonomously observing what a handful of leading international news sources are saying and showing. 10x10 makes no comment on news media bias, or lack thereof. It has no politics, nor any secret agenda; it simply shows what it finds. With no human editors and no regulation, 10x10 is open and free, raw and fresh, and consequently a unique way of following world events. In 10x10, we respond instinctively to patterns in the grid, visual indicators of relevance. When we see a frequently repeated image, we know it’s important. When we see a picture of a movie star next to a picture of dead bodies, we understand the extremes that exist in our world. Scanning a grid of pictures can be more intuitive than reading headlines, for it lets the news come to life, and everything feels a bit less distant, a bit closer to heart, and maybe, if we're lucky, gives us pause to think. If you'd like to learn more about 10x10, you can read how it works.» (http://tenbyten.org/about.html)

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Brousseau, Simon