Twittering Cows. A must see.

In other media news today - a new art project through the critical media lab and visiting artist/researcher Ron Broglio opens Dec. 11, and runs until Jan. 1.

There's a couple components to the piece called "Dairy Diary":

1. Cube on the Berlin Tower of city hall - a video about dairy cows challenges our stereotypes and misconceptions of the rural world that surrounds us. Perhaps farmers are the region’s most adventurous and successful digital entrepreneurs.

2. At the Critical Media Lab - "Dairy Shares,” a participatory video sculpture, invites onlookers to purchase a “share” in a plastic model cow, and write about dairy on the animal’s body. This project situates the dairy cow as a globalized economic and genetic product of inscription. Proceeds will benefit a local food bank and subsidize the purchase of a dairy cow for an African village.

3. Online at www.teattweet.net - follow 12 cows on Twitter for a year, beginning Dec 11. A local dairy farmer has selected a dozen cows from his farm to generate year-long Twitter feeds about their robotic milking activities. Follow the bovine ladies through various stages of lactation as they confront the robots, report their daily yields, and quote lines of poetry from Virgil’s Georgics.

“Teat Tweet” allows viewers to select a dairy cow from portraits on display at and receive regular messages from her on Twitter as she interacts with a voluntary (robotic) milk machine (no farmer needed).

Follow Heide, Kathy and my favourite, Buffy.

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Love that this is exploring the relationship between our food, us and technology.

I personally think it's a must see. I'll be there Friday.

Thanks for sending Carrie.

H.