Digital Capital Week

About:
By scattering a series of digitally imbued tin can telephones—capable of both recording and playback—throughout the DCWEEK closing party, this project seeks to document and share the collective memory of the conference by providing a playful forum for communal discussion.

Each tin can will serve as an interactive interview and listening station where attendees are offered a means to contribute their thoughts and impressions, prompted by questions about DCWEEK’s core themes. In the context of one of these themes, mobility, the conception of a phone has become more of a data hub than a means of conversation. Yet, the simple image of a tin can telephone symbolizes the connection at the core of the telephone’s revolution- communication unhindered by the limits of physical space.

The audio of the interview material can be rebroadcast throughout the network of tin can telephones and hosted online to generate a repository of oral history that can be used by bloggers, journalists, and digital passersby to materialize the live impact of the gathering.

When:
Digital Capital Week Closing Party
- Date: November 11th
- Time: 8pm – 2am

Where:
Closing party of DCWEEK at Arena Stage: 1101 6th Street Southwest, Washington D.C.

How you can get involved:
Contribute technical skills such as industrial design, electrical engineering, communications technology, software engineering.

What we need:
People, ideas, stories, tin cans.

About the organizer:
My name Willie and I am acting as the project manager

Contact us:
Email at willie.pictograms@gmail.com