Emotional Text – 2006

Two weeks.
One person texting how they feel to public display boards.
Anonymously.

One user was anonymously sending text messages from their mobile phone to the public display boards for two weeks. One display board was visually displaying the users message and another display board was using audio to say the users message. The installation probed the user’s experience of being able communicate to another part of society anonymously and the associations the passing public made with the user.

The installation turns the concept of personal blogging on its head; from virtual space to real space, from where you can choose to see it to where you have to see it.

The installation was used to probe two different perspectives of the experience, that of the anonymous user and that of the passers by.

Part of the Nature of Presence Project

A project addressing the needs and desires of people to create presence in digital and non-physical space. Design concepts were used probe and illustrate found thinking and research.