Passing Glances

Elements:

1. Images and how they change, or are changed over time by various members of the public. An example would be the way in which two trash cans had "I DON'T RECALL" stickers plastered onto them, and though one remained untouched, the other had been defaced to read: "I DO RECALL" creating an informal, subersive, hidden dialogue about the California 'recall' election. This was an almost invisible form of public dialogue, which takes place along the fringes of public perception.


2. Place: (see references to differences between concept of 'Space' & 'Place') We are also interested in how different places affect the type of information that a person would leave. How can a system use its surrounding environment (its 'place') to encourage or affect participation. We should consider doing a workshop to investigate how people react to demarcating space within different places. Another thing we need to consider here is thre relationship betweenvarious places, and how this can influence the networked aspects of our work


3. Aesthetic of the device: At this point in time, we are interested in objects that can better integrate themselves into the environment. (Trash cans are looking mighty fine right now...) Our reasoning behind this, is that the cultural specificty of such artifacts, along with the cognitive dissonance (functional estrangement - A. Dunne) of seeing/experiencing this functionality in this context might be very interesting. Also, large screen displays could be potentially alienating in environments - we want to integrate our messaging and narrative into its context.

1. Need to reconnect the demo to the Server at Trinity (probably Ken)


2. Cati to upload demo files in .zip files - Sven said he's using new Max/MSP PC version - so the Max Mac files should be fine.