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Di-Simulated Crowds
BY
Anna Ådahl

The film focuses on the vocabulary, tools and human representation in the various types of software that is used for modelling and tracking crowd behaviour.

Featured in the film are examples from online crowd simulation tutorials: coordinated swarms, mass body crushes, campsites and religious gatherings such as the Hajj in Mecca. These examples are juxtaposed with newly shot scenes of gestures and postures drawn from the simulated crowd agent, the default character, pre-programmed behaviour re-enacted by dancers and images from human tracking devices and. images from human tracking devices and The voice-over interlaces the information and the instructions from the software tutorials generated by a speech edit software/robot voice, with the artist’s own voice and thoughts.

The film addresses the aesthetics and politics of these softwares and tracking system where these digital tools used for monitoring todays crowd flows and behaviour are becoming increasingly political while facing ethical dilemmas.

Shedding new light on the digitisation and simulations of crowds, their interconnected technologies and their inherent potentiality to predict and model our future collective behaviour.

Aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9)
Prod. format Computer & Generic HD-video
Duration 00:13:30
Language English
Color Color
Sound Stereo
Year 2018
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About the artist

Anna Ådahl

Born in 1973, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Anna Ådahl is currently based in Stockholm after been living in France for more than eighteen years. Parallel to her work she has been collaborating with choreographer Fabrice Lambert, filmmaker and artist Keja Ho Kramer. She is presently working on projects which have the notion of the crowd in focus. The crowd as the mass, the people and particularly, as a multitude. Ådahl is a editorial member, since 2012, of OEI (magazine, publishing house and art space).

Recent shows include: Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway, Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway, Taiga Space, St Petersburg, Russia, Botkyrka Konsthall, Fittja-Stockholm, Sweden, Galerie Roussan, Paris, CCA Derry Londonderry, Northern Ireland among many others.

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