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Title	Movable Type [installation]
View	View of one grid (of two) on opposite walls
Notes	The artwork consists of 560 displays (small digital screens) which are arrayed in two grids of seven rows and 40 columns each. Each grid is 53'6"" long and 5'4"" tall
Work Type	visual works installations (visual works) visual works sculpture (visual work)
Style/Period	High-Tech Twenty-first century
Creator Name	Rubin, Ben, 1964- Hansen, Mark H., 1964-
Creator Nationality	American
Date.Creator Birth	1964
Subject.work	business, commerce and trade contemporary (1960 to present) scientific or medical typography or calligraphy writing systems Newspapers
Country	United States
City	New York
State/Province	New York
Location.Notes	lobby of the New York Times Building, 620 Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st St.
Architectural Material	vacuum-fluorescent display screens
Technique	electronic imaging
Dates	2003-2007 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/5/2011
Subject Information	Moveable Type, by New York artist Ben Rubin and UCLA associate professor (in statistics) Mark Hansen, is an artwork commissioned for the ground-floor lobby of The New York Times Building in New York City. It is a dynamic portrait of The Times. Statistical methods and natural-language processing algorithms are used to parse the daily output of the paper (news, features, editorials) and the archives, as well as the activity of visitors to the NYTimes.com website (browsing, searching, commenting). The resulting refracted view of The Times is displayed on 560 vacuum-fluorescent display screens installed in the lobby. Each screen is 4 1/4 inches tall and 8 1/2 inches long. Their resolution is 128 x 256 pixels. The design was coordinated with the architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
Information.source	New York Times [online archive]; http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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