f.wish

A new kind of online forum. The eastern myth says if your wish hangs in the tree it will come true. Try your luck, submit a wish to folly's tree.

boredomresearch are interested in engaging communities online through contemplative and rewarding experiences. With f.wish they present an alternative to your average forum.

This online wishing tree is inspired by the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees in Hong Kong, where visitors make a wish by writing it on yellow paper and tying it to an orange to hang on a branch. If your wish hangs in the tree it will come true, if not the myth claims that your wish is too greedy.

boredomresearch are Southampton-based Vicky Isley and Paul Smith. They interrogate the creative role of computing, producing beautifully crafted software art that presents a fresh approach to our technologically fraught lives.

Commissioned by folly in 2006, the wishing tree continues to attract significant attention and new wish-makers daily.

folly is delighted to have presented f.wish as part of Web Biennial 2007, a project produced by Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM, and in Spanish at Digital Media 1.0 art festival in Valencia, in April/May 2008.

After attracting international attention in the media arts world, f.wish was chosen for a prestigious US-based collection of online digital art  - The computer fine arts collection, archived by Cornell University Library as part of their The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art . The project is sponsored by Cornell’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and the wishing tree is preserved alongside some of the most important media artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.

You can also read a review of this project by Aaron Steed on Furtherfield.
 
Project Supported by the NCCA, Bournemouth University