Falling Times by Michael Bielicky and Kamila B. Richter, in collaboration with Dirk Reinbold :: March 20–April 10, 2009 :: Opening: March 20, 6–8 pm :: Czech Center New York, Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY.

Falling Times is a real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times. Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The most consumed information today is the news. The news has been turning more and more into entertainment. Falling Times reduces the news content to headlines and key words that are then translated into a pictogram language considered to be universal and instantly understandable. Online users have the opportunity to define collectively the meaning associated with each icon created. Proving information does not transport meaning any more but rather creates a pattern decorating our daily life with the feeling that we are connected to reality.

Help to create collective news by defining the meaning of the falling icons. You are creating the news. You are the newsmaker. Your news is the true news. By adding a keyword or a sequence of key words to an icon you select which news will be displayed.

The exhibition is a part of What Happened to the Future? – a series of exhibitions of contemporary art at the Czech Center New York. Curated by Jaroslav Anděl.