Change Industries 2.0, December 2008.
This was a project I worked on in collaboration with Adam Gray and took place before and directly after the 2008 presidential election. The project itself went through many iterations which can be seen here: changeindustries.com. The final version included the use of a printer and a supply of one dollar bills. For this version we angled a printer to eject its medium out of the top story window of a building in downtown Providence. We loaded the printer up with crisp one dollar bills prepared with red text on the back margins reading: "Text message what you want from your country to 813.263.5021" along the top and the project website "www.changeindustries.com" along the bottom.
When someone would text message something to the number, it would be printed on the front of the same dollar bills and fall from the window. As more dollars fell with the number, more texts came in.
Change Industries 1.0, December 2008.
Change Industries was a collaboration I did with Adam Gray. Stage 1 of this project took place right before the 2008 presidential election. We designed and put up posters outside of our local polling station, at Brown University, on various message boards. At first, each poster consisted of a phrase we came up with and asked people to text message what they thought of Barak Obama. When we received a text message, we created a new poster whose theme focused on the message's content. For example, in response to "Who would win a rap battle" we got "McCain. He has the hand motions."
After the election we cut out most of our posters from the original message boards and arranged the scraps on a gallery wall.