Plymouth dn[T]3 or Plymouth Visual Thesaurus is an interactive video installation for public spaces like galleries, squares or mall, indoor projection and ideal for huge outdoor projections, a collective digital graffiti. This project balances art, information design, linguistic psychology and social computing. Through a very simple interaction process the project means to show emerging knowledge pattern in the way we perceive our urban and social space and come out with new vision about collective way to organize knowledge on some current local and global issues.
The project applies a folksonomies model, typical of Internet digital world to real world, but instead of describing and classifying digital goods people are asked to contribute to the creation of a meta-knowledge about real objects, everyday situations, emotions, concepts, everyday social life, etc. The aim is to build a semantic ecosystem, a memetic ecology of the city shown it's social capital, through a collection of tags. The semantic e analyzes words sent via SMS with an inferential engine - custom folksonomies engine - and tracks each word received as: absolute frequency, relations frequency.
Interaction is free, in real-time and easy, people just need to send theirs free association words (tags) via SMS and immediately they become part of the project visual thesaurus. The SMS methodology of communication has been chosen because of the special relationship we have with the mobile phone and with words through it: sometimes intimate, symbolic, or emotionally involving. The word (tag in our case) flows from small to big, from private to public, from personal to collective.
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