Moment of Starlings >>> Happenings

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Public swarm happenings/ flash mobs in Munich

3rd Nov. 2009 >>> schwarm 00 (with guest performance by Improv Everywhere)

10th Nov. 2009 >>> schwarm 01 (rehearsal & final test)

25th Nov. 2009 >>> 18:22 o'clock >>> schwarm 02

3rd Dec. 2009 >>> 19:07 o'clock >>> schwarm 03

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Moment of Starlings >>> SMS an 11832

We will soon swarm out in the city. Our inspiration is the intelligent starlings in their swarms. One hears us  softly beating our wings before we come together to form magnificent swarms in public spaces.
The Flash Mob started in New York and from there it conquered the world. These real happenings in urban spaces are organized in  the virtual realms of the Net. The Urbanauts develop together with the  participants the "Flash Mob" principle, based on research on swarms; with new mobile communication technologies it has been developed further into a  radically new, "pervasive game" for the city.
Follow the white rabbit!  Register to participate by text message. The city is our playground. Participants become actors in a playful urban experiment, and in a flash they take over spaces in the city. The collective of the advanced Flash Mob  makes decisions by text messages or via Twitter. This makes it more stabile  and more mobile. It easily flows around the gray men of the system. And it reacts in real time to the unexpected.

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Schon bald schwärmen wir aus in die Stadt. Unser Vorbild sind intelligente Vogelschwärme, wie die der Stare (Starlings). Leise hört man uns mit den Flügeln schlagen, ehe wir uns im öffentlichen Raum zum unaufhaltbaren Schwarm formieren. Das mobile Kollektiv des weiterentwickelten „flash mob“ trifft neuerdings Ad-hoc-Entscheidungen per SMS oder auf Twitter – wird zum „urban swarm“ und so stabiler und mobiler als sein Vorgänger. Umfließt mit Leichtigkeit die grauen Männer des Systems. Reagiert in Echtzeit auf Unerwartetes.

Von New York aus eroberte der „flash mob“ die Welt. Organisiert werden diese bisher gerade mal wenige Minuten dauernden Happenings im Stadtraum in den virtuellen Weiten des Netzes. die urbanauten entwickeln gemeinsam mit den Teilnehmern des SPIELART-Festivals das Prinzip „flash mob“ mit den Mitteln der Schwarmforschung und Dank neuer mobiler Kommunikationstechnologien weiter zum „urban swarm“. Dabei entsteht ein soziales Spiel – ein radikal neues „pervasive game“ (auch: „mixed reality game“), dass erst durch aktuelle technische Entwicklungen möglich wird.

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The way to register:
Write a SMS text message with the name of your prefered swarm to the number 18832 and you will be registered automatically. (You will receive about 30 textmessages and will cost you 5€) The other way to participate is to follow @TWTflash on the Internet microblog service Twitter with your smartphone. At the day of the Happening you get informations about the secret meeting point and further flashmob instructions via SMS or Twitter on your mobile phone.

The place to be!
Somewhere in downtown Munich. Details will be published by SMS to the participants exactely 60 minutes before the happening starts.

The time to take.
Each happening will take approx. 70 minutes.

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Happenigs

schwarm 00 (with guest performance by Improv Everywhere)
>>> 03.11.2009 >>> Start: 18:41 o'clock

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schwarm 01 (rehearsal & final test)
>>> 10.11.2009 >>> Start: 17:58 o'clock

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schwarm 02
>>> 25.11.2009 >>> Start: 18:22 o'clock

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schwarm 03
>>> 03.12.2009 >>> Start: 19:07 o'clock

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