#WEAR RED AND CALL SOMEONE YOU LOVE
#Wear Red and Call Someone You Love is an participatory digital artwork to be performed in front of live streaming webcams. Concetually rooted in the strategy of re-appropriation, the project reclaims public spaces that are under surveillance by commerical webcams, and repurposes the cameras for personal expression. My goal with the piece is to both draw attention to the webcams and to foster a sense of interconnectedness among participants.
For #Wear Red And Call Someone You Love I will work with volunteers to research local webcams and coordinate a series of events in which participants perform personal, everyday gestures in unision. For the iteration at Oceanside Museum of Art, sites of intervention include the Oceanside North Jetty, Beach, and Pier webcams. The resulting performance will be streamed online to a live feed in the museum. Visitors to the museum will be encouraged to participate in the piece by following a map to the webcam site.
#Wear Red And Call Someone You Love will be exhibited at You, Oceanside Museum of Art, August 11-November 25, 2012.