Toronto, October 10 - 31, 2003

Montreal, March 21 - June 21, 2005

Teletaxi is a site-specific media art exhibition in a taxicab. The taxi is outfitted with an interactive touch screen that displays video, animations, audio, and information triggered by an onboard GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver, which allows the displayed artwork to change depending on where the taxi is in the city. Teletaxi will expose interactive media art to a normally passive audience, by presenting works that explore notions of intimacy, mapping, subterranean space, simulated cities, information architecture, data-visualization, public interventions, surveillance and psycho geography.

Current Contact Info:

info@year01.com
http://www.year01.com/teletaxi
http://www.year01.com

How the Project Started:

We purchased the computer/touch screen from a marketing company in Toronto in 2003 that planned to install hundreds of units in taxis for commercial purposes. The company went bankrupt and Year01 purchased one of the units for our project.

Shows, Events, Happenings:

http://www.year01.com/gallery.htm

Audience, Reactions, Anecdotes, Stories:

The audience mostly consisted of the general public (taxi passengers). Both Toronto and Montréal projects had free tours for the opening launch and the art going audience could 'order' the taxi through a phone number posted on the Teletaxi website.

Other:

YEAR ZERO ONE is an on-line artist run centre, which operates as a network for the dissemination of digital culture and new media through net-based exhibitions, site-specific public art projects, an extensive media arts directory and bulletin and the Year01 Forum

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Images by: Patric Lacasso