Physical alternatives

Physical x virtual

• Google Hangouts API
• WebRTC
  • peer.js - WebRTC wrapper that provides a configurable, peer-to-peer connection API
  • Examples
• Twilio
  • Examples
  • node-twilio documentation
  • TwiML response format documentation
• Survey
  • The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication, Bertolt Brecht 1929
  • A Hole in Space, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz 1980 - more
  • Good Morning Mr Orwell - video, Laurie Anderson exerpt
  • No Fun, Eva and Franco Mattes
  • Delayed, Matthias Gommels
  • Machine to Be Another, BeAnotherLab
  • How are We Going to Talk After This?, Chris Reilly
  • Seedbed, Vito Acconci
  • QR Codes for Digital Nomads, Golan Levin
  • Infoviz Graffiti Stencil, Golan Levin
  • CRAF
  • Telepresence Robots
  • Tickle app
  • Ruby app

Alternatives

• Survey
  • Speaking Exchange
  • Floor, Wendy Jacob
  • TSA Communication, Evan Roth
  • Graffiti Research Lab
  • Steve Lambert
• Sign language
  • Pushing Science’s Limits in Sign Language Lexicon, NYT
  • Signed Languages Can Do So Many Things Spoken Languages Can't, The Guardian
• Braille
• Emoji
  • The Conservatism of Emoji, Kate Crawford and Luke Stark
  • Transiconmorphosis, Fito Segrera and Emilio Vavarella
  • Emoji Show, Eyebeam
  • Xu Bing - website
• Physical correspondence, mail art
  • Ray Johnson
  • New York Correspondance School
  • On Kawara
  • Eternal Network, Robert Filliou
  • MoMA Mail Art exhibit
  • The Mail Art Exhibition: Personal Worlds to Cultural Strategies, John Held, Jr.
  • David Horvitz

Automated mail art

lob.com

1. Sign up for an account.
2. Flip switch to live and add credit card (see pricing).
3. Send a postcard via interface or using the API.
4. See full documentation, github.

Another option? trypaper.com