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Commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Brooklyn-based media artist Kyle McDonald’s Exhausting a Crowd draws inspiration from French author/experimentalist Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris — a 1974 work that set out to exhaustively catalog the minutiae the writer observed over three days from the vantage of a single park bench. Exhausting a Crowd is a kind of digital replica of Perec’s experiment — a twelve hour loop of footage from two days at London’s busy Piccadilly Circus, superimposed with the annotations of anyone interested in contributing. The crowdsourced commentary accumulates in a playful examination of contemporary surveillance.
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Commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Brooklyn-based media artist Kyle McDonald’s Exhausting a Crowd draws inspiration from French author/experimentalist Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris — a 1974 work that set out to exhaustively catalog the minutiae the writer observed over three days from the vantage of a single park bench. Exhausting a Crowd is a kind of digital replica of Perec’s experiment — a twelve hour loop of footage from two days at London’s busy Piccadilly Circus, superimposed with the annotations of anyone interested in contributing. The crowdsourced commentary accumulates in a playful examination of contemporary surveillance.
