PUBLIC MARKS with search cars

I first covered the Mobile Garden project here on Colossal back in October of last year. UIC Art and Design graduate Joe Baldwin continues to pursue funding for his open-air public transit garden, but meanwhile was given the opportunity to participate in this year’s Art on Track festival last weekend by turning the interior of an el car into a fantastic sod-covered, ivy-laden garden. This car circled Chicago’s elevated downtown loop for five hours with several additional cars decorated with numerous other art installations.

Bandwidth is how much data you can transfer at once (number of parallel cars in the road). Latency is how fast a byte of data will travel end to end (length of the road and speed of the cars).