Spectropolis projects: Text Messaging Service by Dodgeball + "Following 'The Man of the Crowd'" by Glowlab
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About Dodgeball: Dodgeball is a new social networking site built specifically for mobile phones. The idea is simple: tell Dodgeball where you are and it will tell you who and what is around you. Dodgball will ping your friends with your whereabouts, let you know when friends-of-friends are within 10 blocks, allow you to broadcast content to anyone within 10 blocks of you or blast messages to your groups of friends. Sign-up for the Spectropolis Channel on Dodgeball to keep on top of the event schedule and receive special, Spectropolis-related text messages. You can also choose to sign-up for Glowlab's "Following 'The Man of the Crowd.'" About "Following 'The Man of the Crowd'": This project is a 24-hour walk in which two participants, linked by text messaging, drift separately through the city in an alternating pattern according to the movements of strangers. Based loosely on Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Man of the Crowd" and inspired by Vito Acconci's 1967 "Following Piece," Christina Ray and Lee Walton have developed a collaborative performance that involves following strangers over a 24-hour period. The two participants, Ray and Walton, will enact an alternating following cycle throughout the 24-hour period. While "on" they'll maintain an intense awareness of a single stranger and his or her unknown destination. While "off," they'll rest and experience their present location. The switch from one participant to the other will be determined by the actions of the strangers, and may be exhaustingly rapid or frustratingly slow. Visitors who sign-up for this channel on Dodgeball will receive Ray and Walton's text messages as they execute the project. You can also view the project online at http://glowlab.blogs.com/following/. |
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About Dodgeball + Glowlab: Dennis Crowley is the founder of Dodgeball.com, a New York-based service which aims to coordinate social interactions between mobile users. His work focuses on finding the intersection between location-based services, social software and user-generated content on mobile devices. Christina Ray is a Brooklyn-based artist/photographer and the founder of Glowlab, an arts lab dedicated to exploring the nature of urban public space. Through Glowlab, Ray produces events and lectures, organizes collaborative projects and exhibitions, and maintains a lab at http://www.glowlab.com. Lee Walton is an artist whose projects and performances are playful, precisely calibrated and deeply attentive to the everyday patterns and rhythms of contemporary city life. Walton has exhibited, lectured and lead projects both nationally and internationally. His projects can be viewed at http://www.leewalton.com. |
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For more information about Spectropolis, please contact dana@nycwireless.net.
Spectropolis thanks these organizations for their help: Bway.net, Wiselephant, Justin T. Molloy and jtmdsgn, B Squared Design, Starworks, and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
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