Misappropriating the schematics of agent-based models for crowd control (used in various contexts from urban planning to military operations), Crowd Scores is a kit of materials for performing a series of foolish crowd behaviors, including instructions, blindfolds, and video documentation. Rather than following underlying rationalities, the scores generate a bad data set, one of wayward motion, emergent forms of coordination and trust, and slight exposures to risk. Together the scores offer some movements for momentarily suspending the behavioral norms incorporated in the self-directed agent of these control models.
2021
Exhibited at the Wiesner Gallery at MIT
Cambridge, MA