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