TEXT ME
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary ArtTEXT ME
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary ArtTEXT ME is a live and online platform in which users, can collect, curate and share stories from their digital past. This multi platform project was also developed for twelve months as an interactive documentary for ARTE, a Franco German broadcaster.
TEXT ME launched at BALTIC on Valentine’s Day 2016. Victoria asked participants to spend five minutes scrolling through their own text archives and select a message they wanted to share. Users entered their message into a LED display and also recorded intimate voicemails, exploring the story behind the message.
During the BALTIC workshops contributors could either memorialise their text message or lay it to rest.
TEXT ME is now a touring exhibition will also travel to MIT and La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris.
Awards
Winner of The Merging Media Prize for Best European Cross platform Project – 2014
Winner of The 2014 Pixel Lab Prize. The Pixel Lab, ‘Supports the film and media industries in their transition to a digital age, specialising in new ways to engage with audiences across multiple platforms’.
Selected for University UK’s 20 Ideas for Life, one of 20 national research projects, which celebrated ‘the impact universities have on everyday lives in the UK and beyond, including the value and importance of their world leading research’.