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Agora Phone
Kelly Dobson

monster@media.mit.edu
http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/AgoraPhone

Urban 'telepresence' as social prosthesis. In the public space sculptures are installed. Everybody can select them by telephone or mobile phone, so that one can speak out of the sculptures. Passers-by can reply through microphones in the sculptures. A discussion can develop between strangers, protected from anonymity. The character of the on-line discussion is transferred into the local urban space.

Occasion: Researchproject at MIT Media Lab