Conversation Snitch

A piece by new media artist Kyle McDonald. The device is an eavesdropping lamp that can easily screw into any light fixture. The lamp picks up on snippets of conversation from members of the general public and posts them to Twitter. The device itself is very simple--composed of a Raspberry Pi, an LED light source, and some type of mic amp. What is important about this project its context. McDonald took a simple fixture and used it to create an online anonymous community--a summary of the public's discussions and interests live tweeted on the internet.