Twitter-Based GlastoPoem at Glastonbury 2009

As the new week begins, Glastonbury 2009 will have drawn to a close. Apart from the fantastic line-up of bands, this year’s festival was treated to a unique installation as part of the BBC’s Poetry Season: an interactive Twitter poem. Called GlastoPoem, the project took an RSS feed from Twitter of all tweets with the hashtag #GlastoPoem, which were then projected onto the inner circumference of the Igloo Arena at the Shangri-La field at Glastonbury, mixed with 3D visuals courtesy of a VJ (Visual Jockey, in this case). Quadraphonic sound helped to enhance the experience. As part of Poetry Season, a number of spoken word artists were also scheduled to perform, with the VJ’s integrating some of the best tweets from GlastoPoem into their live performances.

GlastoPoem on Twitter