The HelloWorld Project

During the course of the UN's World Summit on the Information Society to be held in Geneva from December 10 to 13 of this year, in a unique opportunity to engage citizens in a global dialogue, people from all over the world will be able to send in text messages, which will be projected almost instantly by a laser beam on mountains and buildings in Mumbai (Marine Drive), Rio de Janeiro (Morro dois Irmaos Mountain), New York (UN building) and lake Geneva's "Jet d'eau"(water fountain).

The messages can be sent from the The Helloworld Project website or by sending an SMS to a dedicated number.

A video stream of the projections will be broadcasted to the project website and to the interior of the WSIS meeting in Geneva, where the images of the projection sites will be shown in a live video installation. [Sunday Times]

This is similar to the 2001 project called HelloMrPresident, where people sent messages to Davos during the World Economic Forum's annual conference. A laser projector beamed messges onto the mountain side overlooking the famous ski resort, so that it could be seen by the hundreds of journalists and thousands of people from all over the world. The messages were also projected on screen within the Davos conference halls.

emily | 5:19 PM | SMS and the Arts |
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