Supertask is popping his crowds into individuals for a singular psychological experiment designed to review group dynamics at reside reveals.
The upcoming live performance expertise in Denver will study behavioral patterns like conformity, collective consideration and interplay, George Sideris, Supertask’s supervisor, tells EDM.com. The info collected will in the end contribute to revealed educational analysis, providing a deeper understanding of how we join and behave at live shows.
Because the DJ performs reside, interactive segments and smartphone interplay will accumulate high-fidelity crowd information. A narrator on an LED wall will information crowd members by way of these moments of participation, turning them into each topics and co-creators of the formidable experiment.
Infrared cameras, movement sensors and a smartphone interface will work in unison to seize behavioral information in real-time, offering essential insights for the evaluation of social dynamics in a reside music setting. Gentle, sound and motion will all function variables within the information assortment.
“Not solely will this effort open the doorways for a brand new kind of leisure expertise, blurring the strains between attendee and performer, however it’s going to additionally straight contribute to growing the instruments essential to quantify the distinctive phenomena that emerge from human crowds,” Sideris explains.
The initiative’s testing floor is a three-night occasion sequence at Cervantes’ Different Facet, appropriately titled “Calibration,” which can lay the inspiration for a bigger behavioral examine from Supertask’s crew. They’re planning on fine-tuning the expertise for an expanded tour in various main cities.
“The entire concept is mixing science and artwork, turning reside occasions into real-time laboratories to review crowd conduct,” Supertask tells EDM.com. “This occasion particularly is about calibrating our expertise and refining the system. As soon as we have dialed this in, we’ll be capable of rework a whole tour right into a large-scale psychological examine, gathering unprecedented insights into collective human conduct.”
Supertask’s “Calibration” sequence in Denver is scheduled for July thirty first to August 2nd. Tickets are presently bought out.
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