Sunglasses are an accepted form of pseudo masking in society. Creating other pseudo masks we can wear to embody different characters, especially when we dance.
[current] If you are in the Boston area, you can see my recent installation Lighthouse by the Aquarium T-Stop. It shows until mid March.
2/17/12: PC//MM performing at Future bass themed Pico Picante, The Good Life.
2/*/2012: Urban Bloom, New Media Public Art piece
Spring 2012: When we felt the infinite at TBD, produced by Sprout
Name tags of different people. As each person arrives, they write their actual name on a name tag, and are given the name tag of the person who arrived before them. Different strategies can be used to handle boundary conditions (e.g. person who arrived first is given the last name at the previous party, or a dictionary word picked at random). Also, different strategies can be thought of to handle groups of people arriving together, to minimize the likelihood that you will end up with the name tag of someone you already know.
*dance* Hey, how’s it going? *da da dance* You are not me, *dance dance* am I you?
I like this. I may try it at a soup night… or a WHIRL. It reminds me of a big art and tech event in Portland a few years back. We were given a label, a number or a name or something, and we had to find our twin in the crowd who had the same label. Great way to mix things up and get conversations going. And it turned out I was paired with @brampitoyo! Thats where I was introduced to both he and @caseorganic, so I totally dug this ice breaker.