What if Machines could gossip like humans? The human need for progress has caused us to shape ourselves like the very tools we create. Is it still possible to define the boundary between humans and technology? Media Artist Quintus Glerum attempts to question this boundary by exploiting one of the oldest and perhaps most controversial human abilities: Gossip! The Gossip DataScape is a generated conditional narrative that discusses the primal ability of gossip through the perspective of machines. Everyone who enters this virtual panopticon, leaves a character behind. Together these characters become the subject of the endless gossip between two moderators that govern this world. The more time you spend in their world, the more you will spark the imagination of the other inhabitants that might result with them evolving a similar primal sense of gossip that brought humans together in primal times.
