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APPLIED 01 | Re)cognition of a Collective Memory

Why? “Once lived the unique and raw memories of user experiences are only carried by the self and lost from the collective where they were initially derived from. As of now the remaining collective image often only represents a flattened version of past interactions, denying the diversity in personality that is critical to the true collective.”

How? “Embody the collectively lived accumulation of emotions, experienced during the exhibition by its visitors, in all its diversity, by envisioning and visualizing a distributed ‘spectacle’, that preserves a semiotic translation of the raw emotive resonance of the individual.”

What? “A collective visual bodily language between agents (users and systems), which combines moment-based interactions of which the individual resonance is captured into a raw visual archive of emotive experiences and cultural memories. Pragmatized by a temporal distributed system, implemented in the various spaces of the current exhibition, as well as a central permanent objectified and interconnected ‘memory’ in previous venues ”

APPLIED 02 | Make individuals aware of their power and capability to solve problems as a collective.

Why? “An individual is less motivated to fight a global scale problem, because such a problem is too far away or too big to make an impact on, on his own”

How? “Create metaphor for a problem in a room which only can be solved with the combined effort of a self-created collective. A single body’s data has a relative small impact to the combined collected data of a collective of people. Recorded physical response of the participants to a stimulus, collectively generates a unique solution to the presented problem”

What? “Interactive system of modules that embrace diversity of participants to create a community that empowers the individual voice in finding a solution to a threatening situation."

“Individually we can make a difference, together can have an impact.”

The truth about the world is too terrible to want to know. Individual powerlessness of citizens is too big to make a change.

METHODOLOGY | Why > How > What experimental process

We embrace the shared intentions of the Hyperbody and Metabody collaboration, and as such engage with in a context of hybrid prerequisites. While the Hyperbody design studio will provide a general project structure in the form of a timeline, methodology and deliverables, the explicit combination with Metabody gives us an opportunity and handle to move away from the standard notion of architecture, providing our collective of tech savvy artists with a certain theoretical viewpoint, stance and direction. We therefor decided upon an initial approach and project definition within the broader Metabody context. A general problem statement will result in the formulation of a central abstract problem statement. Which will be the basis for the definition of multiple research questions. Through a general contextual research and it’s subsequent criteria this multitude of development options will be delimited and narrowed down to single research question. This single research question will put us on second concave quest for further information, which eventually will be used to enable us to work towards single solution.

Reference images for individual action > data collection

Reference images for collective (inter) action > data network