As a participant swings on a structure, they are connected to the twitter stream of the networked landscape around them. With each kinetic swing rotation, new messages tagged with specific hashtags are presented on three large screens situated in front and to the sides of the participants.

The social interaction is not only to reveal data, here each swing seat generates different narratives. Thus the kinetic motion of the swings drive the data stream, illuminating this lost connection between our physical movement and the information that we generate, carrying with us daily from our mobile devices.

Each participant’s interaction with the swings materialises the data, that usually moves invisibly, through our environment via their social and kinetic engagement.

Social engagement in public spaces can be an awkward, challenging, and often a difficult experience for people unfamiliar with each other or their surroundings. The need for a non-partial mediator to connect people is something that artists have been tackling with their work for many years and is still being reinvented daily. This form of intervention allows for people occupying a space to engage in playful and anonymous interaction with others.