Supertask is popping his crowds into contributors for a singular psychological experiment designed to review group dynamics at reside exhibits.
The upcoming live performance expertise in Denver will look at behavioral patterns like conformity, collective consideration and interplay, George Sideris, Supertask’s supervisor, tells EDM.com. The info collected will in the end contribute to printed educational analysis, providing a deeper understanding of how we join and behave at concert events.
Because the DJ performs reside, interactive segments and smartphone interplay will accumulate high-fidelity crowd knowledge. A narrator on an LED wall will information crowd members by means of these moments of participation, turning them into each topics and co-creators of the bold experiment.
Infrared cameras, movement sensors and a smartphone interface will work in unison to seize behavioral knowledge in real-time, offering essential insights for the evaluation of social dynamics in a reside music setting. Gentle, sound and motion will all function variables within the knowledge assortment.
“Not solely will this effort open the doorways for a brand new sort of leisure expertise, blurring the strains between attendee and performer, however it is going to additionally instantly contribute to growing the instruments essential to quantify the distinctive phenomena that emerge from human crowds,” Sideris explains.
The initiative’s testing floor is a three-night occasion collection at Cervantes’ Different Aspect, appropriately titled “Calibration,” which is able to lay the muse for a bigger behavioral examine from Supertask’s staff. They’re planning on fine-tuning the expertise for an expanded tour in a variety of main cities.
“The entire concept is mixing science and artwork, turning reside occasions into real-time laboratories to review crowd conduct,” Supertask tells EDM.com. “This occasion particularly is about calibrating our expertise and refining the system. As soon as we have dialed this in, we’ll have the ability to remodel a complete tour right into a large-scale psychological examine, gathering unprecedented insights into collective human conduct.”
Supertask’s “Calibration” collection in Denver is scheduled for July thirty first to August 2nd. Tickets are presently offered out.
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