This program is set to explore a fixed set of news providers' web pages. It then reconstructs a page that reports the same news from the different point of views of the different news providers. After having chosen a topic, the News Teller reads updated information about it through his private eye and interrogates the passerbys about their opinion on the subject matter. The performance consists in a re-interpretation or enactment of the different point of views expressed by the public interviewed in the street and the information published by the press. This type of street performance becomes particularly interesting when the news being reported is one that creates expectation and clustering of opposite opinions of the public.
Good examples are presidential elections, or waiting for the verdict of the court in a trial.
The One-Man Orchestra Many of us are familiar with street musicians that are strapped with wires and carry a large number of musical instruments that can be triggered by different parts of their body. All this gear is usually heavy to carry around and encumbering while playing. In addition the musical mapping between the musical instruments and the body parts cannot change during the performance. The One-Man Orchestra needs to carry only a lightweight wearable computer in his backpack. The computer is connected to five accelerometers placed on his head, hands and feet.