The primary component of the installation is the Breaking News application that is built with Processing. The applicaiton is projected onto a wall and controlled via a trackball and push button that are embedded into an office work desk. The application displays a series of 2D illustrations of famous news-related personalities wrapped onto a 3D sphere. Behind the portrait is hidden the logo of the broadcast company that the individual is most closely identified with; the trackball allows users to turn the 3D sphere. When the user pushes the button adjacent to the track ball the virtual sphere spins and stops with a randomly selected portrait and logo or with an iconic news photograph. Famous news photographs are interspersed with the news personalities. Below the 3D sphere are real time news feeds from a variety of online sources. The application uses the Minim audio library, Bruno Nadeau's romeFeeder library, and the opengl library. Thank you Ben Fry, Casey Reas and the Processing community.


Screen capture of Breaking News application featuring William R. Hearst illustration

Screen capture of Breaking News application featuring Walter Cronkite illustration

Screen capture of Breaking News application featuring Katie Courik illustration


BAS installation view - illustrations, collages and overhead projector

BAS installation view - video in which children identify what is news, radio guns

BAS installation view - radio guns, office desk interface for Breaking News app, overhead projector


BAS installation view - office desk interface for Breaking News app, overhead

BAS installation view - collages by worshop participants

BAS installation view - office desk interface for Breaking News app


BAS installation view - printed illustration of news related personalities

BAS installation view - radio guns tuned to news radio

BAS installation view - office desk interface for Breaking News app - push button and track ball