Called "Left, Right and Center" this project by FABRICA; is an interactive installation selected to coincide with the upcoming Italian national election, focusing on the power and creative expression of citizen media through the use of mobile phones.

Three interactive picture frames are hung in the shop window of the Fabrica Features store close to Piazza Maggiore in Bologna. Each frame is displaying a rolling sequence of images. Viewers are invited to upload their camera phone media to the frames via a Bluetooth connection, thereby contributing new images to the installation. Each frame is assigned a title of "Left", "Right" or "Center", a theme designed to hint at the current political climate around election time; however, the association of images and political stances are entirely up to the viewers' interpretation.

All citizen journalists are encouraged to participate and a gallery of posted images will be available online in late April.

I love projects like these, incorporating real time photo blogging and visualization of images in a different formt. If you know of similar setups, let us know. I would love to compile a list and compare them in terms of peoples reactions. Sounds similar to the photo and texting billboards that have sprung up in various parts of the northeastern United States.

Source Picturephoning.

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