Assignment 5

A) Interest in TweetBot "NRA_Tally" - ref. https://mobile.twitter.com/nra_tally

It is quite weird that human is" brilliant" enough to design TweetBot, which can tweet or search for specific data while human cannot. The artist is allowed to design the specific restrictions like theme, coding and period of time, TweetBot is a funny autonomous program, although it has no stance, it always generate unpredictable results.

"NRA_Tally" is a data-driven bot, which based on the data of mass shooting. The most catchy thing is all the tweet start from a Number, which would refer to date, victim and location. It is impressive that this oppositional bot retweet something from existing data, this kind of performance seems reminding the audience the important element of those tradegies. National Rifle Association(NRA) aims at promoting public safety while American are allowed to own weapon as defense, however, when people concern the number of injuries, death, weapon and affected location, NRA_Tally seems presented as an opposite stance of NRA.


B) First draft of a work using Tweeter (groups with Fion and Yoki)

We would like to create an interactive work, which allows the user to input the first word as data, then the program would search for the sentence, which starts with the initial word. The selected sentence of tweet will be shown, then the last word of sentence would become an updated input continuously, program will search again, a work is infinite scrolling.