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At this years UK election, the results of the general election are to be projected on to St Stephen’s Tower, which houses Big Ben, for the first time, by the BBC. The idea behind projecting the results in this way is to provide a clear and simple source of information and to create an »arresting« image.

The results projection, which will be removed after dawn on 7 May, will feature a »winning line«, representing the 326 seats that any party will need to win to be sure of an outright victory. The idea was approved by the parliamentary authorities, responsible for the management of its buildings and the BBC is said to be »delighted« with the initiative.

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After the interaction guys, the generative art guys took over the stage at TOCA ME 09. First up: Jer Thorpe from Vancouver, Canada.

He is part of the glocal project, which is an »immense, collaborative and multifaceted digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of images in the 21st century«. In other words, they are figuring new creative ways of using and dealing with huge amounts of data. So he defined one big rule: »Collaboration requires many mobile people in a changing environment.«

The image breeder for example is an application for, well, breeding images – literally. You select two images to start with and the software finds images with characteristics of both of them. It is not only a nice toy, but also a serious tool for finding inspiration in images!

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