User:Laurier Rochon/work/listener

Listener

The concept of the speed show within a Belhuis is, to me, about limitations. It is also about performance (in both its senses) and simplicity. Perhaps the greatest limitation is technical, as we cannot 1)rearrange/reconfigure hardware 2)use our own hardware 3)have limited software to work with 4)and cannot install our own software. The piece will therefore have to live within a (potentially crappy) browser, and perform optimally even under terrible computing/bandwidth conditions. For that reason, I choose to build a lightweight, text-based, multi-user application that can be interacted with from different Belhuises in the city (or the world, for that matter).

Something along the lines of Eliza meets Turin meets Messenger. More details to come...