TXTris an interactive SMS wall installation. The first work by MLT. November, 2007

Created by: Patrick Dinnen, Dory Kornfeld, Michael Pereira and Gabe Sawhney. With artful skyline contributions from Michael Schwartz.

The simple concept behind TXTris the interaction of the real and computer generated stuff.

SMS messages sent by bystanders appear, one at a time, from the top of the projection and slowly fall down the screen. The physical/virtual cross-over happens when the falling letters reach a real cardboard roofline and stop, resting on the roof of a building. The virtual words gradually pile up, getting fractured as some letters fall farther than others to land on the roofs of shorter buildings.

More: Notes on TXTris’ first installation at CaseCamp6 Toronto, How we built TXTris and photos and video of TXTris in action.