Online dating: ‘I want you to want me’
by: trendlover April 6, 2008
People today are much more comfortable with online dating than they ever were. The ‘Iwantyoutowantme’ exhibit chronicles profiles of all ages, genders & sexualities from various online-dating sites and selects phrases from these sites every few hours and stores them into its database.
“The data is presented as an interactive installation, displayed on a 56” high-resolution touch screen…On screen is an interactive sky, whose weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, etc.) can be controlled by the viewer. Through the sky float hundreds of blue (male) and pink (female) balloons, each representing a single dating profile. The brighter balloons are younger people; the darker balloons older.. The viewer can touch any balloon to select it, causing its photo to dangle from a string and its sentence to appear in a thought bubble overhead. Touching any balloon a second time pops it..”
Next step will be throwing in an interactive cupid to really get things moving along…
TrendOriginal: Iwantyoutowantme, Jonathan Harris, Sep Kamvar, MOMA
topics: social
tags: art, men, networks, online dating, women