https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/19b0013cbc5d6111613214f43d8a8863.png 4dfb5496f3d6f10d366454cf02eadad2 https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/5745ba1deb5929e4c7b356a6e27a2008.png badebcb82679c5817f23d307a5a06057 https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/5018ec33bf447ac786b59d6da867e6a5.png 4d863ff31ba88ba6cfbf8ac7b9656132 ADELTA Item Items included in the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art (ADELTA). Platform Software platform or means of display e.g Installation / YouTube / HTML / Flash / Twitter / QuickTime Twitter/Video Work URL The URL of the original work, included as an HTML link. <a href="http://sallypryor.com/works/med.html">http://sallypryor.com/works/med.html</a> Artist Statement A statement about the work, as provided by the artist(s). Twills is a generative video work, dynamic and mostly text-based. It was projected on the wall in the show and explores the roles of medication in contemporary life and the complex responses people have to these. I harvested twitter for several months in 2013 looking for interesting tweets containing the words pills or medication and built a database of over 500 tweets. Then I wrote a program to assemble random collections of tweets into structured collages of these many different hopes, fears, problems, solutions and experiences of medication. People are remarkably candid on twitter and their tweets are thought-provoking in themselves, but when they are combined in unexpected ways, new stories are continually generated. <a href="http://sallypryor.com/works/med.html">Excerpt from author's website</a> Source of Artist Statement The source of information included in the Artist Statement, included as an HTML link to the relevant URL where possible. <a href="http://sallypryor.com/works/med.html">Excerpt from author's website</a> Genre Generative video work/Multimedia installation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Pryor_twills Title A name given to the resource On medication: Twills (tweets about pills) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pryor,Sally Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Golin, Carlo McDonald, Bill Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Sally Pryor. The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder. Description An account of the resource <strong>Artist Statement</strong><br />Twills is a generative video work, dynamic and mostly text-based. It was projected on the wall in the show and explores the roles of medication in contemporary life and the complex responses people have to these. I harvested twitter for several months in 2013 looking for interesting tweets containing the words pills or medication and built a database of over 500 tweets. Then I wrote a program to assemble random collections of tweets into structured collages of these many different hopes, fears, problems, solutions and experiences of medication. People are remarkably candid on twitter and their tweets are thought-provoking in themselves, but when they are combined in unexpected ways, new stories are continually generated.<br /><a href="http://sallypryor.com/works/med.html">Source of Artist Statement</a> Generative video work Multimedia installation Sally Pryor