CSPAN-5 is a video Twitter bot. Every day, a computer program downloads a random video from C-SPAN, then transcribes that video and analyzes which words were spoken most frequently. Using that analysis, the bot generates a new cut of the video containing only the top keywords. Encompassing an impossibly large corpus of political spectacle, talking points and general tedium, CSPAN-5 presents American politics in its most concentrated form.

Excerpts from CSPAN-5
Art of Bots exhibit, Sommerset House, London

Art of Bots exhibit, Sommerset House, London