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Live tweets on french election #LaPresidentielle2017

The video shows 30 minutes of live printing a selection of tweets between 8:13 and 8:47 pm at the evening of the french election on May 7th, 2017, containing the hashtag #La Presidentielle2017. Independent centrist Macron has defeated Marine Le Pen by 65.1% to 34.9% according to French state television estimates, as counting continues. Tweets are mostly in french.

The software is still in development and does not show all french special characters correctly. The printer is part of a media art installation currently in development by the artists Jens Semjan and Bernhard Lermann. Find out more about how you can buy and support our art visit www.patreon.com/semjanlermann

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“The hateful youth are ripe today”: Printed Tweets to realdonaldtrump

@realdonaldtrump now has the lowest approval rating of any president at the 100-day mark, although polls suggest his base remains loyal.

In the tweet roll today the 100 days where a topic, also Trump being on a rally again, that he planned for the same night as the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which he had previously said he would skip.

Another thing is North Korea, of course. This one coming from a voluntary adviser:

When you’ll dive deeper into the video, you will also find beauty. This passage compiles quite opposing views on DT’s presidency and draws a picture of its own:

The actual roll that we have printed out contains more than a thousand tweets that have been posted during a time span of 45 minutes. Find out more about how you can buy and support our art here.