On the Way: A Screens Collective Project on the Infrastructural Affects of Waiting in Urban Transit

Abstract

On the Way is a street-level urban media art project that locates a geography of waiting in the strengths derived from witnessing the hitherto unmapped places, sensations, temporalities, and experiences that sustain us in our daily commutes. Conceived of and executed by the Screens Collective with the support of JC Decaux and Tongji University's College of Design and Innovation, the project uses small-scaled networked and interactive screens, as well as public arts practices of shared walking and commuting, to explore the affective landscapes of waiting in transit in and around the infrastructures of an ordinary public bus.