Hello!

I'm The Hello Cube. I am an installation made by Hellicar & Lewis shown at in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern as part of Infinite Kusama. Infinite Kusama is a partnership project between Tate Collective, ReCreativeUK.com and the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project. I am inspired by the Yayoi Kusama exhibition, and in particular her artwork ‘The Passing Winter’.

You can communicate with me via Twitter, either right here or online. Wherever you are in the world, send me a message to @thehellocube to create your own unique artwork.

I have four scenes at the moment:

spot, drawn, texture, cell.

I also know all these commands:

flip, mirror, invert, ripple, posterize, wave, pixelate, shake, swirl, reflect, more, less, smaller, bigger, faster, slower, love, cell, drawn, spots, texture, crack, next, previous, random.

You can choose from all these colours. Try tweeting them to me to change what you see.

Example Tweet: "@thehellocube cells purple shake"

Try putting a scene first, then a colour, and then as many commands as you like! Or you can just try tweeting the random command with a colour if you want The Hello Cube to choose for you.

When you have sent me your command, I will send you an image straight back to your Twitter account so you can share your creation with your friends.

Credits:

Directors: Hellicar & Lewis
Producer: Claire Spencer Cook, Nexus Interactive Arts
Programming: Todd Vanderlin and Diederick Huijbers
Project Curator: Sarah Toplis, Commissioning Editor -Tate Collectives

Made using openFrameworks.

People have written about me:

• "The Hello Cube Is Possibly The First "Twitterable Object"": The Creators Project
• "...let people build their own art...": Protein
• "Say Hello To The Cube That Turns Tweets Into Art": Fast Company
• "Go and tweet the joy machine": Creative Review
• "A fun yet rather bizarre project, no?": Coco's Tea Party
• "People often tweet about artworks but can one tweet at an artwork? And will the artwork tweet back?": Technology in the Arts
• "...patterns, systems and machines… human or otherwise...": Dazed&Confused
• ".VUITTON x TATE = The Hello Cube": Wonderland
• "Introducing The Hello Cube": Fred Butler

I'd like to go other places around the world, so if you'd like to take me, or have any questions, or any new ideas for scenes or commands, please send me a message on Twitter.