Tumbarumba

By kevin on September 14th, 2009, 12:34 am 0 Comments

My first introduction to new media art came with the first class. Immediately I thought of the infamous stumble-upon. Well, Tumbarumba functions in that same vein in a sense that, it too sits quietly on your page. You have the choice to click on it and delve into a new adventure or leave it as is. It’s purpose is to channel people reading anything on the internet into a selected short story by subtly turning original texts on web-pages into fragments of something else (the short stories). here’s the video.

(sorry i couldn’t get the embed to work and now this looks bland as poo) (I fixed this Kevin! -Justin)

Tumbarumba is interactive and distracting. When I was introduced to this firefox add-on/extention through a series of links, I got pretty pumped. Earlier today I found it difficult to find something i was interested in, but it just goes to show that clicking links can be an amazing thing. Tumbarumba works just like clicking a link does. Clicking new links can be a fast-paced pass time of the new mediated generations. (this cannot be good for our attention spans). Regardless, it brings new hype to me.

This add-on is available through this site tumbarumba add-on
Tumbarumba is a collaboration between Ethan Ham and Benjamin Rosenbaum. a pretty interesting collaboration with each new story unfolding to me as i try this little gem out.
Ethan’s work is very interesting and interactive via internet interaction/ and spacial interaction within an installation. This is Ethan Ham\’s site.
Benjamin Rosenbaum is a writer. check his stories, google his name.

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