Relevant - TXT driven Flash Mob Article - NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/us/25mobs.html?src=me&ref=general

iPhone Apps

I found two iphone apps that I think are very relevant to our project (esp. the first one). Here is a quote from the first and then the two links for the two apps follow it:

With mobile technology we are now able to integrate the social potential of networked experience with the immediacy and relevance of the physical world. As Jean Baudrillard writes in response to student strikes in France of May 1968:

"The real revolutionary media were the walls and their speech, the silk-screen posters and the handpainted notices, the street where speech began and was exchanged - everything that was an immediate inscription, given and turned, spoken and answered, mobile in the same space and time, reciprocal and antagonistic. The street is, in this sense, the alternative and subversive form of the mass media, since it isn't, like the latter, an objectified support for answerless messages, a transmission system at a distance. It is the frayed space of the symbolic exchange of speech - ephemeral, mortal."

http://urbantick.blogspot.com/2009/10/historic-earth-old-maps-georeferenced.html

http://yellowarrow.net/v3/

Cheap 17" LCD Panels on Ebay

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=17%22+lcd+panel&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Create projector from LCD Panel

Narrative / Personal Mapping

http://craigmod.com/interactive/hitotoki/

Narrative Mapping Project - Calling for people to submit information about experiences which impacted them - and tagging them online.

http://hitotoki.org/about/

(about)

http://hitotoki.org/classic/newyork/

(actual usable example)

Drawing / Proposal

conversing / projecting syracuse

1. The action of living or having one's being in a place or among persons. Also fig. of one's spiritual being. Obs.

2. The action of consorting or having dealings with others; living together; commerce, intercourse, society, intimacy. Obs.

7. a. Interchange of thoughts and words; familiar discourse or talk.

Concept_

Conversations occur simultaneously at the urban scale; on a broad range of topics and locations. Mobile communication transfers face-to-face conversations to information exchange, with its own content and signifiers. Recombining the opportunities afforded by mobile technology into a located entity which enlivens urban experience.

Hybrid conversations; which incorporate elements of face to face conversation with the rapidity and convenience of the TXT message will be generated from an initial question. The elements which are used for the installation are the existing surface(s) at the Fayette and Warren St Park; bus stops; and telephone booths throughout the city.

Questions are posed at the infrastructural input points, and TXT responses are fed into a projection, which displays them, and feeds TXTs which end in a question mark (?) back to the input points to begin new chains of conversation. After a new question is posed, the collected responses, displayed as a series of layers, are saved and displayed online, for documentation and further discussion.

The display is set up as a running series of messages, which slowly aggregate on the projection, which are superimposed over the previous messages; the opacity of the individual message fades over time. This way, depending on the rate of incoming messages, the legibility and effect of the individual message changes in response to the broader conversation (similar to “real” conversation – messages can be lost in the crowd – as civil conversation fades to a cacophony of voices.

Thus, by linking dispersed input/ display points into a singular place, the aggregation of inputs begins to create conversive art - enlivening + creating a context for conversation in / on / about syracuse.

Some Drawings

Instant video of the other space being projected on to the screen.




Connection between spaces enabled by the interaction of people using text messages.