Natalie Jeremijenko's Newsmotion (NM) Bike Messengers: changing who, where, how and why news is produced.
It's an alpha prototype kit for LED wheel displays that will visually broadcast geolocative data – such as traffic fatalities at each intersection and block, updating as you ride; or economic statistics, like the extent of student debt, in the form of "occu-pie" charts – thereby enabling you to transform your bike into a moving civic media display.
And unlike paid advertisement displayed in public transit, this indicator, and the ones to follow, are in the interests of the rider and in all our interests.
Knowing, in situ, localized economic data, or aggregated pedestrian, cyclist, motorbike or other deaths have occurred at a site is a transformative model; and the first of a series of indicators in development for this Newsmotion Bike Messenger display.
[An artist and engineer, Natalie Jeremijenko is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at NYU and Director of the Environmental Health Clinic. Wired magazine has called her “one of the three or four most dynamic people on the face of the earth.”]
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