The Argleton event is an artistic experiment organised by Birdhouse Effect with an open call to anyone willing to participate and modulate it.
Argleton is a town in the northwest of U.K. which appeared in Google maps without existing in reality. Have a look for more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argleton This project attempts to locate the city of Argleton in a wider cultural narrative. The project comments on the cognitive conceptions of space understood through maps, the notion of place in a mobile and globalised world and the production of place as a container of experiences. The event will take place through Twitter for three days Tuesday 13th, Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th of July. A part of it will be broadcast in real time between 16.00- 18.00 (GMT) everyday from http://www.birdhouseeffect.com/argleton.html<http://www.birdhouseeffect.com/> Buildings from all around the world will be projected in a real time video synthesis, creating the hybrid space and time of a non-existent town. During the three days of the event the participants will exchange messages through Twitter, sharing experiences and information about this particular town. Feel free to write down your own imaginary experiences, memories and anything you wish to share. All tweets will be reproduced in the project as long as they follow certain easy rules: 1. All tweets should be in English. 2. They should include the word “Argleton”. 3. You can only use present and past tense. 4. At the end of each tweet you need to add #BirdhouseEffect I.e. In Arglerton I used to have the best ice-cream ever!#BirdhouseEffect Buses are always so slow in Argleton.#BirdhouseEffect In case someone wants to take part in the project without creating a twitter account the following account is available: username: abirdhouse password: effect See you all in Argleton!!!!!! -- Olga P Massanet -------------------------- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational
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