Last but not least: Popp makes it rain headlines
Media artist Julius Popp has created an art installation that takes news headlines and causes them to “rain” down onto the cobblestones in liquid form. The words are formed within the installation’s curtain of water.
How does it work? Julius Popp has programmed a computer to search local newspapers for headlines. These then literally fall from the sky. As Popp explains Bernese Newspaper explains, the installation is intended to create the effect that the viewer can no longer keep up with reading. Because in today's world, people are confronted with floods of information that have already lost their meaning the next day.
The "bit.fall installation" is located in front of the Rigassi Gallery in Bern's Münstergasse. It can be admired until July 20. (uma)
