REGRETS [Cambridge].

team: Jane Mulfinger, Graham Budgett, Carl Magagnosc.

support: MicroSoft Research Cambridge & WestmARC [University of Westminster] UK.

Regrets: a public conceptual artwork.

Six to ten purpose-built mobile computer stations publicly located in and around Cambridge collect anonymously submitted regrets from the public to comprise a sociological database of contemporary remorse. Instant feedback to the individual user based on other contributors' similar concerns is algorithmically generated and calculated to 'share the burden'. Random selections and groupings of the regrets are made public across the city through existing signage and broadcast facilities. By engaging users in revelations of a problematic but constructive nature, we aim to bring specificities of individual lives, in this case personal regrets, into the realm of public debate, shared learning, and community.

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/budgett/regrets/