Click::TWEET. A Telegraphic Sound Installation
Paul Dunham · 2021
The representations that real-time, always-on, data-driven technologies will enhance society like never before promotes an historical inattention that ignores the entangled genealogy of contemporary social media.Within a media archaeological context, this work presents Twitter and the telegraph as related forms of social media.Click::TWEET, a sound installation utilising obsolete media technology, is presented as an audio-visual representation of a genealogy of connections between past media technologies and contemporary social media.Click::TWEET can be considered a return to the material representation of media through the physical re-presentation of Twitter messages transported as invisible digital media through the physical materiality of the telegraph key.By enabling the ability to hear the present through the past, Click::TWEET reconfigures the existence of the telegraph within a broader history of social media.