Media Circus by Michael LeBlanc is “a scrolling marquee that displays amusing headline news mash-ups”. I found this idea interesting because of its use of new-media technology to create a commentary on the quality of news that is often broadcasted. The piece is still being fine-tuned but I thought its concept was worth taking a look at. The idea for the program that operates the marquee came from the Dadaist use of “cutting up” phrases and re-organizing them to show different meanings. The marquee runs on an Arduino Duemilanove and is programmed to retrieve headlines from two Canadian news services and recombines them to display twenty new phrases.

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LeBlance, Michael. “Intellectual Curiosity (求知欲) » Blog Archive » Introducing Media Circus.” Intellectual Curiosity (求知欲). Intellectual Curiosity. Web. 10 Sept. 2011. <http://leblanc.co.cc/?p=960>.