2010 was the first year that the UK Parliamentary elections included American style television debates between the party leaders. The organizers of the FutureEverything festival in Manchester, England invited SoSo Limited to do something similar as their US Debate remix, ReConstitution for a live audience over there. They had fully integrated the LIWC text...

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Developed by the interaction research studio of Goldsmiths, University of Lon- don, for a convent of Poor Clare nuns in York (GB), this device has been de- signed to inform the sisters regarding affairs in the outside world that require their prayers. The Prayer Companion screen is horizontally oriented to avoid distracting passers by, and shows news headl...

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The Long Now Foundation, a non-profit organisation that encourages long-term thinking, runs the Rosetta Project, a digital archive of the world’s languages. As part of this project, in 2008 it produced the Rosetta Disk, a nickel alloy disk measuring 7.62 cm in diameter that contains over 13,000 pages of information on over 1,500 human languages. Each page...

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Public Lab is a non-profit community that develops open code tools and applies them to the exploration and investigation of the environment. The instruments included in the Balloon Mapping Kit are designed to provide simple, cheap and safe methods for making maps and obtaining aerial images. The use of a balloon and a kite controlled from the ground permi...

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Audiovisual installation fed by fragments of thousands of personal video diaries posted online. The project meditates on the complex current situation of the participative media and on the human desire to be heard. Each of the 5,000 videos forming this installation features an individual talking from a private space (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, etc.) to an...

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