The artwork is part of Surface Tension, an exhibition taking place in Trinity College Dublin’s Science Gallery, which explores the “the future of water” and man’s consumption of it.
The system works by generating random words selected from the day’s main news. These words then appear in the individual droplets, forming pixels, of water as they fall to the ground.
The art work’s creator, Julius Popp, explains the inspiration behind the work,
“The speed at which information is sourced, exchanged and updated in our modern society is almost inconceivable, and more ephemeral than ever before. The work BIT.FALL translates this abstract process into an experience for the senses and is a metaphor for these contemporary currents of information.”
Popp is a German-based artist who uses typically uses technology as the basis for this artworks. He first exhibited Bit.Fall in 2005, you can see who he created the piece in this 2006 video.
Videos by Spreegurke, Sveti , and duirmuid
I have come across my share of beautifully written, over-engineered code... one moment I am…
This week, I’ve seen a lot of over-dramatization of very simple factual events that seem…
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is not an organic movement; it doesn't come from the will…
Nine-year-old Addie Lao from California lives with severe allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, sesame seeds,…
Sustainable investment in the US has faced political backlash in 2025 after the current administration's…
For many decades, satellite images have played an important role in the arena of national…