Media Lab Europe

Media Lab Europe’s mission was to expand human potential through invention. Between 2000 and 2005 Media Lab Europe generated a range of research activities. Of note are the projects of the Everyday Learning Group (principal investigator Carol Strohecker) looking at “technology-supported intergenerational, intercultural constructivity”

TexTales:

Mike Ananny, Carol Strohecker

This large-scale installation is an exploration of public collaborative publishing. We display a 3-by-3 grid of photos and associated captions on a building wall. Anyone viewing the wall can choose a photo for which they would like to create a caption, send a SMS text message with their caption and, after a delay of about 10 seconds, see their caption added to the wall. For each photo, TexTales displays the 3 most recent SMS captions.