New project - Messaged Helsinki
Project Messaged Helsinki is all about commenting on
popular issues and leaving traces of the communication
around the city. The idea would be to send an SMS
message on current issues (for now we can say the
US military action) and the receiver writes
down the message wherever they are. If they're outside
they could write the message on the road with chalk,
or leave a note on a piece of paper if they're in a cafe etc...

so something like this.


posted by [j] at 06:38

Messaged Helsinki - War and Peace?
Any interest in commenting the current war with messages across town?
Military action raises questions and thoughts - could we try to communicate those feelings?

Chalk, autumn
It is raining. It is autumn. In autumn it rains often.
Taking temporary to the max.

Re: Stewart Brand
We become amnesiacs to protect ourselves from overload.
Future anthropolgists will construct mini versions of us from DNA samples and watch 'us' live in a terrarium.
posted by [jm.] at 06:41

Stewart Brand remixed
"We lose short-term memory, period."

email for historians - rerun
Print your email? On a daily basis? Weekly print what feels significant? A month is already too much to print?
Is it a waste of paper? Cd? Cd.
Sorry, I guess we already talked about this and [d] (?) said CD.
Though it isn't my solution. I don't have a solution.

smile, you got sms
sounds nice. could we draw a map of our movements in the city stating where we've walked and what we've thought, done, communicated?
chalk is a wonderful idea.
posted by [jm.] at 14:20

digital communication
"There has never been a time of such drastic and
irretrievable information loss. We've turned into a
total amnesiac. We do short-term memory, period.
Future anthropologists will find our pottery but not
our email." (Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catologue)

We've been discussing the theme of "Gallery Helsinki".
It'd be interesting to create some statements around
town about the issue of how we communicate in the
city and if we can leave a few temporary traces behind.

These could be in the form of some kind of reaction:
like if we receive a text message of good news, then
we chalk a ":)" on the street. We can discuss more to
get the options out, but the results might be fun to
experiment with.

posted by [j] at 09:50