Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise AI-researched

Christopher Baker, 2008

Video installation / web application

https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Q4092

Uses large pools of online self-broadcast video, commonly YouTube-era vlogs.

Hello World uses pools of online video to create an overwhelming montage of simultaneous self-broadcasts. If the work depends on API-based retrieval, YouTube API shutdowns break ingestion.

Extinction Events

API Shutdown Major impact Unknown
YouTube Data API v2 shutdown

YouTube Data API v2

Uses large pools of online video. If the work depends on API-based retrieval, v2 shutdown breaks ingestion.