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Following the Man of the Crowd
September 30th, 2004

Following the Man of the Crowd is another Spectropolis 2004 project that anyone in New York City can participate in on October 2-3, reports Popgadget.

manofcrowd.jpg ‘Following “The Man of the Crowd”‘is a 24-hour walk in which two participants, linked by text messaging, drift separately through the city in an alternating pattern according to the movements of strangers.

Based loosely on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Man of the Crowd” and inspired by Vito Acconci’s 1967 “Following Piece,” Ray and Walton have developed a collaborative performance that involves following strangers over a 24-hour period. Working as a team connected only through text messaging, the two will alternate turns following selected strangers through New York City.

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Following the Man of the Crowd is another Spectropolis 2004 project that anyone in New York City can participate in on October 2-3, reports Popgadget.
‘Following “The Man of the Crowd”‘is a 24-hour walk in which two participants, linked by text messaging, drift separately through the city in an alternating pattern according to the [...]

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Comments
1 - stefanos pantagis
Thu, Sep 30, 2004
@ 04:04

thanks for the link: just signed up. would be great to hook up people from here with the sousveillance project: or get several articles on this. i got a great article on the barlow flashmob and it got picked up by culture kitchen!

so this whole thing is a great way to connect and build on things already part of our devices.

lots of application for clinical sousveillance, which is something we are also working on as well, but we need to understand what persons come up with in the artistic realm. I have tried some of the ideas from this web page and have regotten some of my “authority:” by authority, patients grant doctors powers as well as responsibility to treat, heal, comfort, and do no harm. This supercedes all other interests, but increasingly, i am finding if patients can sousveille, it really helps out the doctor in arguing with hospitals and nursing homes, in terms of fixing things. It also builds trust and this has therapeutic outcomes.

It would be great to get ones doctors to form social healthcare networks that advocate for the patient, and not the insurance, or hospital. It could be a way to inject proactive thought into alot of complicated desicions: but with this power comes a lot of social responsibility that may freak out persons.

Imagine if the witness a serious crime, or are part of a street side emergency? Do you ingnore the emergency? or do you call in police, or ambulance to assist?

Many of my patients keep track of my whereabouts in the community: at this time, he is in the office, at that time, he is in the hospital, and at that time, he is at the nursing home. Most persons respect my need to maintain other persons privacy, and this information is used to actually create a sousveillance team. It takes a team approach and toning down docs egos to get a team working towards overall improvement: we are human.

A lot can also be done with geolocation envirotagging and corralating information with hospice benefits: will explain later….

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Thu, Sep 30, 2004
@ 04:24

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3 - Sousveillance
Thu, Sep 30, 2004
@ 05:41

ManoftheCrowd

Just Joined Dogdeball team from Glowlab.blogs: they are doing this really interesting art explorative. I had a great time earlier during the RNC with the John Barlow flashmob. I am finding that my poetic self is finding lots of poetry within these crow…

4 - codex
Thu, Sep 30, 2004
@ 22:04

Following the Man of the Crowd

Based loosely on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Man of the Crowd” and inspired by Vito Acconci’s 1967 “Following Piece,” Ray and Walton have developed a collaborative performance that involves following strangers over a 24-hour period. Workin…