It's interesting how much art and technology become increasingly connected.
StarryNight is an example of how art and technology are working together and influencing one another.
This art work can be compared to an algorithm. The posts that had the most clicks correlates to how big their star is.
StarryNight collects data on how many times a text has been read,assigning a star to it on the project's “sky”.
Based on how many views the text receives, the star becomes bigger and brighter,
This is can be used as a way to measure the importance or popularity of a specfic post.
Another feature that is part of this art is selecting between the keywords linked to a specific star (text),
linking it with the other texts having the same keyword in common. This is another example of how it can be comparable to an algorithm.
This feature is represented by a visual “linking” of stars. This creates constellations throughout the artwork.
In the same way brighter stars are easier to get noticed in the sky by our eyes,
theses specific texts that have more views are easier to be noticed by other internet users as well.
