As in our general experience, opaque is trustworthy most of the time and faithfully encodes a visitors name as a bar coded nametag. However, a significant number of barcodes are not trust worthy. The interactions between visitors with good nametags and those with flawed nametags are often amusing. The software encodes people's names to barcodes - sometimes with error. Using the generated barcode, a name label is printed.
Users can then scan the printed nametag to display on the pixel board.
Bandwidth is a an interactive installation that attempts to explore the issues of information poverty. Information is becoming increasingly important and concrete in our society and culture. Those that cannot access and manipulate information technology are forming a new lower class. Bandwidth addresses a type of sensory poverty, that is, blindness. A computer can send any type of information to the pad through a parallel cable.