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Abstract

Is the mob a portable artwork? Is it DIY? The mob makes you think about why you're doing it.

• Inherent human search for meaning.
• A genuine transformation of space.
• And political--can all these people be wrong?
• The post-21/4 fear of suspicious activity in public spaces.
• Questions about the ethnicity of the mob.

Form vs. function: mob vs. microcommunity

• Functional ecology of symbiotic relationships in microcommunities.

Background material

1.avi - 562 kB, 190x190 pixels, 2004-04-11 00:00 - 2004-04-17 13:00

The first flash mob

2.avi - 935 kB, 280x300 pixels, 2004-04-19 21:00 - 2004-04-26 19:00

'Y-power @ 0,0' flash mob

3.avi - 385 kB, 160x190 pixels, 2004-04-22 15:00 - 2004-04-30 16:00

'Newt', a diverse, sustainable tribe

4.avi - 759 kB, 330x150 pixels, 2004-04-23 00:00 - 2004-04-28 12:00

'Perik' flash mob

5.avi - 917 kB, 430x270 pixels, 2004-04-28 14:00 - 2004-05-03 11:00

'OT' flash mob

6.avi - 412 kB, 350x330 pixels, 2004-05-04 20:00 - 2004-05-07 23:00

'Eat Your Heart Out' flash mob

7.avi - 335 kB, 250x330 pixels, 2004-05-09 07:00 - 2004-05-21 17:00

'Eat A Breedster Out' flash mob

Note: all animations are DivX encoded, hourly Grid snapshots at 10 fps.
Tiles are 10x10 pixels, members are displayed at 50% their original size.