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in development:Computer
terminals set up in central train stations in Berlin, Tokyo,
Moscow, New Delhi, Mexico and NY.
Passengers
waiting for the train can stand at the computer, and, with
their permission, being captured on video for any other
computer surfers in this alternate closed network.
Passengers
can choose, with the help of installed translation software,
to chat with one or more ³fellow² passengers at computers
in different cities.
The
idea is to generate new pathways of international dialogue
among mass transit riders worldwide (as opposed to usual
on-line chatting which stems from searching for what you
are looking for, or other contemporary forms of dialogue
that bring together the like-minded or people from similar
social groups).
Participating
passengers would be asked if they would submit anonymous
files of the cross-transitory dialogue for use in a subsequent
installation projecting text excerpts into other public
spaces.
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