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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Kinecity and Future Face revisited

In November of last year, I highlighted Kinecity's proposal for a World Trade Center Installation. The site now features more of their projects and proposals, in particular the Comment Wall proposal caught my eye:



Comment Wall is a wall where people can write their thoughts directly onto a wall using their fingers. The camera-recognition system remembers their text and displays it over time. The further away you stand from the wall; the most distant texts are displayed. As you come forward, more and more recent texts are uncovered until, when you are in front of the wall itself, a blank area is created for you to write your own.


Kinecity is Marek Walczak, Jakub Segen and Michael McAllister. I'm a long-time admirer of Marek's work (and collaborations with Martin Wattenberg), and I'm pleased to see the Future Face group he takes part in has a massively updated website since I last visited. It now includes overviews of lots of their ideas, as well as a tag cloud, a concept map and an RSS feed to help make sense of it all. Brilliant.

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