Featured in the WEBSCAPE exhibition at The Art Museum of West Sealand in Denmark, the TurntablistPC reacts to online traffic by playing a record in the exhibition space every time a participating website is visited. The idea sounds simply cool. Designed by Danish artist Mogens Jacobsen, the TurntablistPC is a telematic hybrid of a turntable (gramophone) and an old personal computer.

It’s a server that can be accessed by a third-party website. The participating websites put a short code on their pages and that code sends the information to the TurntablistPC. The moment a person visits one of the subscribing websites, the TurntablistPC spins the record. Moreover, the TurntablistPC spins clockwise or anti-clockwise depending upon the location of the remote website.

The modular and highly variable system needs a progression of devices featured in different set-ups. TurntablistPC is on show from September 21 - November 25, 2007.

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