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EAVESDROPLETS - Karen O'Rourke
A project developed in collaboration with Dispatx Art Collective -
http://www.dispatx.com/
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The streets resound with pedestrians chattering to friends or cell
phones. People are crowding into Internet chat rooms, expounding on
forums, posting to mailing lists and blogs, while televisons talk
endlessly. At one time or another we've all overheard exchanges that
seemed funny, off the wall, premonitory, surrealistic. Often composed of
very ordinary remarks, their strangeness comes from the way they overlap
and recombine to a stranger's ears. This random juxtaposition can shake
tired expressions out of their torpor, metaphors can be mixed,
reinvigorated or rendered ridiculous.
This project aims at collecting these recontextualized sound bytes and
using them as starting points for collaborative net-stories. You are
invited to post your favorite bits of dialog via an online
questionnaire. You can also use other contributors' eavesdroplets to
create a short story, an image or a sound file.
To post an eavesdroplet:
http://www.dispatx.com/wip/eavesdroplets_form.php
To begin with, both the eavesdroplets and the stories will be posted to
the Dispatx Art Collective work-in-progress blog. As the project
develops,the bits of conversation will be mapped into a specific
relational database. The interface will allow visitors to select and
display different types of relationships between the entries. They'll be
able to visualize, for example, all the exchanges taking place at a
beach, on November 15th or in New York City. Each eavesdroplet can lead
to one or more stories. Stories can reference any number of
eavesdroplets (they can be juxtaposed randomly in the manner of cadavres
exquis). Visitors to the site can consult the map to find intriguing
eavesdroplets and read the associated stories. They can also propose
either bits of dialog or completed stories. While the eavesdroplets can
be uploaded to the site by any human visitor who is logged on, stories
and multimedia files (images, sounds) will need to be approved for
publication.
Karen O'Rourke: mapper at wanadoo dot fr
Read other eavesdroplets on the Dispatx Art Collective site:
http://www.dispatx.com/wip/?cat=29&more=1&idiom=en&orderby=dt_tm&order=DESC
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