Multimedia art – it’s the best format. I visited New York in October 2010 and spotted this amazing piece at the MOMA, tucked away in a corner. It’s an interactive screen that feeds in thousands of posts for personal ads, posts from dating websites, and categorization of gender, relationship status, and so much more. Amazing to think that these things were being developed in the 2008 timeframe (mind blowingly ahead of its game).

Need some explanation? Here goes:

Want You To Want Me chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, gathering new data from a variety of online dating sites every few hours. The system searches these sites for certain phrases, which it then collects and stores in a database. These phrases, taken out of context, provide partial glimpses into people’s private lives. Simultaneously, the system forms an evolving zeitgeist of dating, tracking the most popular first dates, turn-ons, desires, self-descriptions and interests.

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