Hello Digital

Sleevenotes Go Tweet

• Sat 27th March 2010 2:00pm — 5:00pm

• VIVID

HELLO DIGITAL FRINGE EVENT:

In summer 2009, Producer/Curator Trevor Pitt embarked upon a cartographic venture based at VIVID. He traced his flirtations with pop, punk, film, art and cultural theory and in the process reflected on cultural experiences shared by a generation which grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. Joining Trevor on this journey have been individuals who played a significant, often underground role in shaping the music, fashion and club scenes during the 1970s and 80s. Pitt invited people to join him on this cartographic venture by mapping the scenes and writing Sleeve Notes to their own lives through intimate 1-1 chats.

For Hello Digital, he proposes to go viral. Starting with a tweet, Pitt hopes to demonstrate the ways in which regular and natural users of social media can proliferate information and widen participation in events which would otherwise stay ‘underground’.

Pitt hopes to see how Twitter transfers across to other external networks, initially through re-Tweeting behaviours and then through more commonly utilized modes such as Facebook, Friends Reunited, SMS, e-mail and finally, to analogue.

Two initial events are proposed, aimed at the metal and underground electronica scenes, where Pitt will initiate a invitation to participate at a given location and date.

Event Info

To receive updates on this project go to http://www.vivid.org.uk/projects.php?work=55

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