Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz ran with the concept of interconnecting 5 locations in the Los Angeles area through state-of-the-art telecommunicative devices. This included drawing tablets, a computer messaging system, and of course, telephones. Likewise to a café, the conventions were open for 6 hrs a day for 7 weeks. Customers would be able to post any desired text or images, participate in discussions, and even altermaterial made from other customers at other café sites. This project was a part of the Olympic Arts Festival, a citywide celebration of “International Brotherhood."
I found this concept project to be especially creative, considering it takes a universally known place like a cafe and remodels it into a celebration for digital interaction. It’s a common phrase to go, “grab a coffee” with someone, and the ideaof conversing with people from the same branch cafe in other places expands the conversations and interactions that can occur in an already bustling coffee shop.