Mass Observation 2.0: Research Into the Everyday - exhibition

Opening reception: Tuesday, January 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Part exhibition, part archive, and part platform for workshops, events, and talks, Mass Observation 2.0 aims to create a participatory space for research and exchange. It is based on a collaborative, transdisciplinary seminar and project by Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology at The New School and the Institute for Art and Art Theory / Intermedia, University of Cologne. The project aims to research everyday life with a theoretical and practical, analytical and investigative, critical and experimental, online and offline approach, and to understand the everyday as a phenomenon that since modernity continuously shapes our perception of the world and increasingly generates altered forms of communication and relatedness under the influence of new technologies. The exhibition features digital material in the form of a collective “dominant image” archive, creating and performing instructions devised by students as methods for defamiliarizing and interrupting habitual responses to the everyday, as well as artistic research projects. Free admission.