And now, 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls strapped to a wall, screaming the subconscious of the internet

Like some kind of hellish oracle that evokes Minority Report by way of Hasbro , the art installation T , E.D. ( Transformations , Emotional Deconstruction ) corrals the incipient hive mind of the internet and uses eighty yammering ursine dolls as a mouthpiece .

This pieceby Sean Hathaway and Carlos Severe Marcelin takes Teddy Ruxpin — that famous 1980s talking toy — and wires him up with the “ instantaneous worked up pulse of the internet . ” Poor Teddy has seemingly gone loopy gazing into the whole of the human psyche . From the artist ’ synopsis :

TED is a great , wall - based installation lie in of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that talk worked up substance gathered from the web via synthetical delivery with repair rima oris . The speaking of the aroused content is accompanied by one of twenty - four musical vignettes that have been paired to the emotional capacity being utter . Each sketch , represent one of twenty - four insidious variants of human emotion , have been composed in such a way that the rootage and ends of the short pieces will seamlessly dogleg in any potential configuration and stream endlessly as a unified whole . The induction is allowed to stray about freely through the emotional landscape being get only by those who are chip in content to the piece whether unwittingly or consciously . As such the overall presentation of the piece can vary greatly establish on external conditions such as seasons , world upshot and even time of day .