Gathering crowds: mapping the post-human social body

ABSTRACT

As a digital artist, I seek to create experiential works that engage participants in an infinite feedback loop of interaction and discovery. My goal is to create works that exist in a perpetual state of transformation and becoming. I am interested in the rhythm and music of everyday activities such as walking and driving—compositions that have no beginning, ending, inside or outside. Such movements, when captured and visualized, provide a portrait of the social body that reflects our understanding of Self and Other.

REFERENCES

• 1: N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1998
• 2: Canetti, Elias, "Crowds and Power", Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York (1985).

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

Additional Classification:
  J. Computer Applications

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management, Performance, Theory