Final Year Studio - Research - SPOTS - 33 Questions per Minute

Image courtesy of www.spots-berlin.de, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).

An installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that allowed passers by to type in any question they had into a terminal in front of the media facade. The facade then showed 33 questions per minute that were stored in it's computer's database. If no questions had been typed in it created one from various sentence fragments. This created human curiosity as often mechanical meaningless strings of words were displayed.

Here the technique of how we think is targeted as the facade mimics the connections that we think through to create ideas. Also there could be the possibilty that by thinking itself it might just come up with an idea that is totally original and does make some sense. This installation I think more than any of the others directly tries to bring the audience and architecture closer together, emercing them under the umbrella of thought. It offers a listening ear for the publics thoughts and curisity, a sort of public counseller.

From a technical point of view though, you can see that the low resolution of the screen forces the text to be huge so that it is legible.

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