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New York Times Movable Type Dashboard

Posted in Dashboards | Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The dashboard paradigm has been embraced literally by The New York Times. The following images show a media arts installation in the lobby of the New York Times building that turns two opposing walls into large information dashboards. Named “Movable Type”, this project consists of 560 screens suspended on wires in two identical facing arrays. Each wall consists of 7 rows and 40 columns of 4 1/2 inch by 8 1/2 inch screens.

The content of the dashboard constantly changes. A live feed from The New York Times provides snippets of text to the displays. Additional input comes from nytimes.com website visitor stats and comments as well as content from the newspaper’s archives.

Movable Type displays fragments of information on each display such as quotes, details, questions, numbers and geographic information.

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New York Times lobby dashboard

lobby of new york times building with dashboard

New York Times Building Lobby Movable Type Installation

The Dashboard Wall at the New York Times

Dashboard Portlets New York Times

dashboard screen at the new york times

Here is an explanation of the project by the artists. They even delve into the feeds from the New York Times that they parse and how they coordinate matching sound effects.

Tags: Large Dashboards, Physical Real-world dashboard, movable type, new york times dashboard