cityspeak citywide

Cityspeak is ephemeral graffiti, an exploration into using private modes of communication to drive transient public displays of commentary about a particular location. Participants use their SMS- and web-enabled cellphones or wireless PDAs to send text to a common server. The text is processed using the NextText text visualization software. NextText references real-time data from the location to specify the visual behaviors of the text. The resulting stream of text is layered back onto the location in the form of large-scale projections. Participants can use the display to leave commentary, tell stories, conduct conversations or simply to play with the visual characteristics of text.

Cityspeak is an example p2P (private-to-public) communication which allows participants to use communication technologies we tend to think of as private–cell phones and Personal Digital Assistants–to create public displays.

Cityspeak is a partner in the Mobile Digital Commons Network , a group of artists, university and industry researchers and policy activists that is experimenting with ways in which to bring the ideas of a creative commons to the wireless environment in Canada.

Jason Lewis, Lucie Belanger e Maroussia Levesque

18 Novembre 2006 Sesc Avenida Paulista, Sao Paolo, Brésil

L’équipe d’OBX s’est rendue � Sao Paulo au Brésil afin d’installer et présenter Cityspeak dans le cadre du festival Mobilefest. La conférence se voulait une réflexion sur les potentialités autant que sur les pièges qui se présenteront � nous dans le futur des technologies mobiles. Cityspeak se trouvait dans la salle d’exposition � l’entrée de l’auditorium pendant les trois jours de la conférence, � laquelle Maroussia Lévesque � présenté le projet.