Marc , Could you please ask Kerrie Dee to keep us informed on her project.
Best Annie On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:24 AM, marc garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part of the upcoming Next Wave Festival (Melbourne, May). > > Setting up office as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival, Stranger of > the Month invites members of the public to visit our mailroom where our > clerks will assist you in distributing instructions to unsuspecting > strangers via fax, post and the web. > > Stranger of the Month is an amateur publishing project based on novel > forms of distribution and collective creativity. A service for > generating instructions for the anonymous other, Stranger of the Month > takes its cue from 'how to' manuals, spy novels, new age self-help > mantras, and minor acts of everyday subversion. > > Coming from a non-technical background I have attempted to mimic an open > source community while being deliberately low-fi in my approach > (instructions are typed on a 50s Brother typewriter). > > While the concept contains ideas that have been circulating amongst > these practices for some time, my goal was really to create a collective > expression of these practices. I love the idea of an open source > database for instructions/ participatory art/ games for example - a > toolkit for public engagement. I will be encouraging artists to attach a > creative commons license on these works, although issues of artistic > ownership are strangely placed in this project, and am still not decided > on whether this will seem almost token. > > Part of the project also includes participatory projects by artists, to > be published in print media during the festival and performed live in > public space. One such project by Hugh Davies is an analogue version of > a locative game involving hand-drawn maps. Taking participants on a > trail through the city from one map to another, participants follow the > instructions until the few left are invited to draw their own maps and > take over the game, thus providing the potential for new situations and > interventions to occur. > > I am currently working on the website - it should be complete by May. > It's www.strangerofthemonth.com for those who are interested. > > Best Wishes, > Kerrie-Dee > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- http://www.bram.org
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