So.
So, the idea is: SWARM is a night when a large group of artist-run Vancouver galleries cooperate for once and have openings and parties on the same night, featuring local artists. Pictures on Flickr here.
So. Here in Zone Two, otherwise known as the Downtown EastSide, we had 13 galleries participating, and the Fearless City project sent teams out to each of the galleries to capture people’s reactions to the art and post them via SMS to a Twitter clone called SIFT which civilians can think of as just a place where all the text messages got filed one after the others.
You text your reactions to art: simple.
Oh yeah, and we had a repurposed shopping cart roving the streets packed to the gills with high-tech batteries, powering in order of importance a laptop which was managing the anarchy insofar as it could be managed AND a 48″ screen on which were displayed all of the messages as they came in unfiltered and in real time or as real as text messaging can get.
For realz.
The # codes are codes for which gallery the message originated from. From which the message originated.
Whatever.
Will link these up later if I’m not too lazy.
- #ac = access gallery
- #as = artspeak
- #cw = cineworks although I don’t think anyone got there, as it is nowhere near the DTES actually. Perhaps they were only there in class solidarity
- #cc = clackclack empire
- #gg = gallery gachet
- # hp = helen pitt gallery
- # iu = interurban gallery
- #lg = les gallery
- #na = 221a (one of my team’s)
- # og = orr gallery
- # pg = plank gallery (one of my team’s)
- #sg = shudder gallery (one of my team’s)
- #uv = UVic 2nd Year (nobody went there, just too far away practically in Hastings Sunrise.
And now, to the transcript in REVERSE chronological order, as I am too lazy to flip this all around. And this is what it looked like, entirely unfiltered.
#as Reagan, please!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:42 by Anonymous
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Horse pussy is much tighter than female
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:35 by Anonymous
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#pg muse needs more interesting projects. Andrew salgado rocks.
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:30 by Anonymous
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Wheres the graveyard party at sorry!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:16 by Anonymous
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You are the best – don’t stop ‘011
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:10 by Anonymous
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I lub you artists- keep doing your thang! DTES Forever – masala mario
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:06 by Anonymous
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Oh yea
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:04 by Anonymous
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Lotussss
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
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Where is the party at ??
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
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I have never felt so embowered
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
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Hey did I’d keel
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
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Swarmmmmmmmmmm
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
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This is addictive!!!!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:02 by Anonymous
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Mobile swarmin till the morn
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:01 by Anonymous
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I came, i saw, then i came again.
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:00 by Anonymous
#
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:00 by Anonymous
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#gg just let it out. Whatever that means to you.
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:00 by Anonymous
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I love my thumbs!!!!!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:56 by Anonymous
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Best thing I’ve seen tonight!!!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:56 by Anonymous
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Big sad faces and empty spaces….what does that say about us?
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:56 by Anonymous
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#as what’s happening at the after party?
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:55 by Anonymous
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J Dilla never sounded better
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:48 by Anonymous
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Yay gachet!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:47 by Anonymous
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You are in the middle of the opus, right now.
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:46 by Anonymous
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#gg We are the barbarians and our love for art and culture can’t hide that
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:44 by Anonymous
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#iu why should i care?
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:41 by Anonymous
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Ac
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:39 by Anonymous
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#gg I am standing right behind u
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:34 by Anonymous
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