Antique phone on which museum and festival goers can whisper into to leave their secrets. This phone was gutted and outfitted with a small microphone and speaker controlled by an Arduino. |
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WISHING WALL
Wishing wall asks museum visitors one simple question: "What do you wish for?". Responses to the questions are left as audio messages through an antique phone. Visual representations of the messages are created dynamically in real time and this visualization is projected on a large wall facing the wishing audience. Visitors can also (or just) listen to each others wishes by picking up another phone under the projection. If there are no wishes in the pool, wishes are pulled randomly from those previously recorded. It is virtually impossible to experience the same wishes twice.
Wishing wall was created with one PC, an Arduino, two speakers, and a microphone, and the applet was created with Processing. It was installed at the San Jose Museum of Art and again at the ZeroOne festival.