Ideal Art Space

202 17th Avenue SW

Calgary

July 19, 2008, Friday 8:00 PM

TXTUAL HEALING BY PAUL NOTZOLD

TXTual Healing! One Night Only!

In Collaboration with The New Gallery and Ideal Art Space, TRUCK presents TXTual Healing by Paul Notzold on Friday, July 19th 2008!

TXTual Healing was created by Paul Notzold and has since become an ongoing series of interactive performances that encourage the creation of dialogue through text messaging from mobile phones. The project harnesses the SMS capabilities of the cell phone as a medium to interact with and explore our shared public and physical space, not as a means to escape it. TXTual Healing builds community through public story telling.

Using the speech bubble as a symbol for communication, participants send text messages to a provided phone number that automatically, anonymously, and in real time, displays these messages inside the bubbles projected onto the facade of a building. The result of projecting in shared public space give participants in the street a voice as loud as the corporate and government entities who financially predetermine the information in these spaces.

TXTual Healing encourages the public sharing of thoughts, experiences and ideas using networked mobile devices that typically support more private communications. Positioning the projections next to windows, or integrating the SMS interactivity with religious, political and socially charged graphics, invites people to share their own uncensored views of the information around them in the form of interactive theater.

Bringing this internationally exhibited series to Calgary for the first time, Notzold will be leading a group of cyclists around around the city, infiltrating public spaces along the way with TXTual Healing’s interactive street theatre.