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A bit of self promotion: A new souvenir concept that I have developed for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark just launched. Here follows a description:
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Social Souvenir is an installation and souvenir concept that creates links and social experiences between museum visitors.
The concept is based on 300 T-shirts that are exhibited and put on sale at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. Each T-shirt is imprinted with a text fragment inspired by 15 renowned artists represented in the museum's collection, such as Yoko Ono, Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp and Per Højholt.
Visitors can buy a T-shirt of their own choice, the only condition being that they share a bit of personal information about themselves, or more precisely: their name and address. When paying for the T-shirt at the museum-shop, the information is automatically mapped in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after leaving the museum.
During the course of the exhibition, the 300 T-shirts will gradually disappear from the physical museum space only to re-appear on the web. Consequently, by buying a T-shirt visitors do not simply get a personal piece of the installation - they also help contribute to its collective development and distribution.
COMMENTS (2)
This is cool, I like this.
I suppose its a 'nice/consensual' version of the RFID tagging that big stores are introducing to track products.
Are the customers asked to interact with the map at all? upload pictures etc?
Hi Paul - I'm glad you liked it! And yes, the project plays with the idea of consensual tagging, or more specifically, the dynamics between a product and service/experience. There are no possibilities of further user-interaction, but it is likely to be integrated in a next version. Drop a mail if you want to know more.