We are:
Adam Somlai-Fischer, Jonas Öquist & Daniel Wetter
A train is seen approaching a railway crossing. On its side a short message
is displayed.
It reads: Det är omöjligt att vara förälskad och
klok på sammam gång. / Francis Bacon
We use scrolling LED indication Data Display technology. The object is
to exhibit a variety of quotations so they appear to travel at a slightly
lower speed than the train.
The quotations are generated dynamically from a list of aphorisms, truisms
or adjectives describing wine, food, love or fear (without necessarily
revealing that which we are describing). An option may be to describe
with a negation, or even a double negation?
Future projects
Delivering messages using similar technology; this time on the wheels
of buses, cars, baby trolleys, bicycles, wheelchairs, electric fans, helicopter
propeller, etc.
Resist being surprised to read a Spinoza quotation: “All things
excellent are as difficult as they are rare” at a location as
unexpected and ephemeral as on the side of a train.