Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd. A Study of The Popular Mind.
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BonCrow.html
Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds. A Moving Picture Of Democracy.
http://www.nowaffles.com/crowds/
Elias Canetti, 1962, Crowds and Power.
Paul Virno, 2004, A Grammar of the Multitude.
Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts, Elias Canetti's Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power, Transformation
Gary Hart, 2011, Are We A Society.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/are-we-a-society_b_847453.html
http://immersivesurfaces.blogspot.com/
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A great example of crowd art is the project by JR, sponsored by TED, in which he asks people from all over the planet to take a portrait, send it to him along with a story, receive a poster, and put up the poster...
http://www.insideoutproject.net/
A friend of mine, architect and public artist, Marina Radulj, does crowd choreography. Here are some of them images she created using her "student body".
http://www.bodyneverlies.com/body/body_plus_space?more=body_plus_space_laying
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebodyneverlies/sets/72157625653565819/
And then we have Spencer Tunick, who has done works with crowds for at least 20 years.
http://www.spencertunick.com/
Yoga in the Central Park in 2010 drew a crowd of thousands of people. Although rained on and not very well organized, it was a great success in terms of the interest it drew.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118742544826556
Human Towers in Catalania,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11742399
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xfl_1QjxRM
http://www.insideoutproject.net/
A friend of mine, architect and public artist, Marina Radulj, does crowd choreography. Here are some of them images she created using her "student body".
http://www.bodyneverlies.com/body/body_plus_space?more=body_plus_space_laying
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebodyneverlies/sets/72157625653565819/
And then we have Spencer Tunick, who has done works with crowds for at least 20 years.
http://www.spencertunick.com/
Yoga in the Central Park in 2010 drew a crowd of thousands of people. Although rained on and not very well organized, it was a great success in terms of the interest it drew.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118742544826556
Human Towers in Catalania,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11742399
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xfl_1QjxRM
Crowd Art
Art historians have the tendency to classify artistic practices throughout the time. In general, it's easier to classify history in hindsight. But contemporary art theorists tend to classify the art practices of their time. After the end of modern art and the project of modernism, art history put its focus on pop and conceptual art. Peter Weibel spoke of context art. Nicolas Bourriaurd spoke of "Relational Art". Today, we see an emergence of crowd art. It's a new field reacting to social media technology, globalism, and the emergence of us people as a phenomenon of "crowd".
Questions that come out of this: Are we a society? How are we connected? What organizes us? What is the relationship among us. Is there a social contract? And if we don't have one, are we still a society or just a group of people, a crowd. Who organizes us? And is our contribution to democracy just to vote once every few years? How can we be empowered citizen?
Questions that come out of this: Are we a society? How are we connected? What organizes us? What is the relationship among us. Is there a social contract? And if we don't have one, are we still a society or just a group of people, a crowd. Who organizes us? And is our contribution to democracy just to vote once every few years? How can we be empowered citizen?
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