In a near future, if you have a good quote to go on one of these boxes, viewable from most of the center of the IT University, you can visit an input-website where you can type in text to be displayed on John Maeda's artwork for ITU, the screens you see above. All in all there are seven screens, "clued" to the front of our meeting-boxes, and all eventually "programmable" with text via the net (so far only one is receiving input, the one with the green "s" on the picture). The box displays the text submitted but in random order and with random frequency (as far as I have seen, still need to find the documentation somewhere).

So far the website is kinda secret, but I know the address and have started writing to it. You get a strange kick out of seing your own words displayed in such a context. I think this is an interesting example of net-connected art, which might turn out to have some real potential. I'm looking forward to see it getting up and running for real, so you can also contribute. I'll keep you posted.

PS. Maeda doesn't have a blog. But he has a clog...
# posted by Lisbeth at: 19:17