We Make Money Not Art reports on an interesting project done by public artist Ryan Holsopple. The Canal Street Station takes place at the Canal stop in New York's subway system.
From any public pay phone in the Canal street station, call this this toll-free number -- 1-877-OR-WHAT-31 or 1-877-679-4283. From there, you're asked to solve riddles as you walk from pay phone to pay phone throughout the station. Just try not looking like a creepy terrorist. Oh and good luck finding a phone that works.
According to WMMNA, the game uses a Trixbox server and a phone application platform based on Asterisk™ that collects caller ID info from payphones and pinpoints where the player is located within the station.
Phone lines will be open until October.
I'm going to try and play this over the weekend. Will report back on the experience -- that is, unless I'm stuck in Guantanamo.
