THE DUMPSTER, 2006 Golan Levin With Kamal Nigam And Jonathan Feinberg Interactive Data Base Installation

The Dumpster is an interactive visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has "dumped" another. The project's graphical tools reveal the astonishing similarities, unique differences, and underlying patterns of these failed relationships, providing both peculiarly analytic and sympathetically intimate perspectives onto the diversity of global romantic pain.

The Dumpster was jointly commissioned by the Whitney Museum Artport in collaboration with Tate Online.