Online: A Crowded Apocalypse by IOCOSE. 30th September 2011 to 1st October 2011 FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ http://www.fact.co.uk/
Conspiracy theories are, by their definition, neither ultimately refutable or acceptable. In order to hold true, they rely on the acceptance that the full evidence is not reachable. They are based on a shared belief: the idea that each one of us is an unaware piece in a mysterious master plan. Crowdsourcing, instead, makes this more transparent. Each user contributes to the creation of something which is bigger than the sum of each singular production. The final plan remains unknown, but it is actively produced by a large crowd. IOCOSE will exploit crowdsourcing as a tool for the creation of a shared belief. The “crowd” will assemble its own conspiracy which will involve them again, at the end, as human beings. http://acrowdedapocalypse.com/ A project by IOCOSE http://www.iocose.org/ Commissioned by AND Festival and Furtherfield http://www.andfestival.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
