The _fly tweet_ device sends Twitter messages based on the activities of a collection of houseflies. The flies live inside an acrylic sphere along with a computer keyboard. As they move and interact inside their home, they fly over the keys on the keyboard. These movements are collected in real time on video. As a particular key is triggered by the flies, the corresponding character is entered into a Twitter text box. When 140 characters are reached or the flies trigger the “enter” key, the message containing the accumulated characters is tweeted. Thus live Twitter messages are constantly sent in real time based on the simple movements of the community of houseflies. These continually accumulating messages appear as records of random activity within the larger sphere of social media and networking.

Links: http://dwbowen.com/fly_tweet_movie.html https://twitter.com/#!/@flycolony

Thank you to:
Andrew Spitz for the Max to Twitter tutorial
Christopher Baker for help with Java Script

**David Bowen** (US) born in 1975, is a studio artist and educator whose work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Bowen’s work is concerned with aesthetics that result from interactive, reactive and generative processes as they relate to intersections between natural and mechanical systems. He is currently Associate Professor of Sculpture and Physical Computing at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.