Production Team: ISPACE
Design Collaborative
website: Freewalkers.com>
public interface to LED silentalk project listed above
Sponsor : MBTA
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Management : Codman Company
*Featured as Part of the
Digital
Art in Public Space Conference> The Boston Cyberarts Festival 2003
Specific Project Development to Execution >
WOTS=word on the site: TEXT submittals
Overview and General Data Regarding Pilot Content Broadcast: Words of Wisdom & Kids Wishes
TIme Period: four weeks > MARCH 20 - APRIL 20 2003
620 website hits
60 individuals participated by submitting text > some several times>
total WOTS submited via text box interface= 140 entries
252 separate text phrases and thoughts within total wots submitted
137 selected for public silentalk related to WORDS OF WISDOM + KIDS WISHES < see process>
11 filtered by sponsor
Total number of entries selected
and approved by sponsor =126 [average 2 per participant]
Total number of contributors=60
Total number of contributors selected for broadcast = 57
Total text entries used for Pilot Broadcast = 126 >
Total number of entries without attribution and listed as original text by sender = 110
Total recognized poets & thinkers attributed =13
Total with blocked identity = 3
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*Ten thousand people
pass through the South Station bus terminal daily - april 2003
according to Codman Co.
management for this facility
Broadcast period April 26- May 11 2003 hours 24/7 for 15 days - extra days added to complete documentation of project
Estimated 150 thousand people will have contact with the WOTS -words of wisdom LED display broadcast in the two week exhibition period
* this does not consider
all the viewership from the street> which is visible for 5 long blocks
and several intersections
nor all the viewership from
surrounding widow scapes> located in South Station /Financial district
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* Post deadline for Pilot
Broadcast of April 14 > number of WOTS submitted by the public = average
1 out of 10 visitors has submitted new WOTS text
see WOTS2>
location to be announce
To see > WOTS
1 Pilot broadcast text