Spots

© 2005 Bernd Hiepe
from 33QPM by R. Lozano Hammer
If you´ve ever wanted to ask a deeply personal question on a gigantic media facade, then as from 13 December 2005 you can by taking part in the interactive art project 33 Questions per Minute by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Passers-by can type whatever questions are occupying them into a terminal that is installed within viewing distance of the SPOTS light and media facade. As the name suggests, 33 Questions per Minute will display 33 questions each minute.
Visitors were able to access the terminal from 29 November 2005 to 8 January 2006. It was located at the corner of Stresemannstrasse and Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany.

That is what visitors wrote:

13.12.2005 14:41:51
7UI9?

13.12.2005 14:43:49
DIES IST EIN TEST?

13.12.2005 15:12:25
WIE GEHT DAS?

13.12.2005 15:34:31
SOLLTEN WIR DAS RUN?

13.12.2005 15:35:23
FRAGE?

13.12.2005 15:36:14
UND AUCH AO???

13.12.2005 15:41:47
TTEST?

13.12.2005 16:29:17
TEST?

13.12.2005 16:34:56
TEST?

13.12.2005 16:38:34
HALLO?

13.12.2005 16:40:36
TESTEN SCHEINT SINNVOLL?

13.12.2005 16:47:45
WANN IST FEIERABEND?

13.12.2005 16:49:27
WO IST ULRIKE?

13.12.2005 16:50:19
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?

13.12.2005 16:52:36
TWISTWED SISTERS?

13.12.2005 16:55:20
WELCHER TAG IST HEUTE?

13.12.2005 16:57:42
0110000 011111010 01111 WAS WAR FALSCH?

13.12.2005 17:00:23
WAS KOSTED DIE WELT?

13.12.2005 17:20:48
HALLO?

13.12.2005 17:33:01
WANN GEHT ES WEITER?

13.12.2005 17:38:32
POTSDAMER PLATZ ?


basically, there was a distinct lack of deeply personal questions.....
why does SMS seem to most people, an unispirational and banal communicative medium?