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Subway is a participatory multi-located activist art project. It builds on the mediation of a dance performance by breaking a video apart into its image frames; creating a photo app in Android to re-use these frames as guides for a frame-by-frame reenactment; and finally reassembling the collected images into a new video. Through the affordances of digital and mobile media, it allowed participants in New York and Teheran to create a shared dance performance as digital activist art.
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Quitmeyer, A., Nitsche, M., Ansari, A. (2013). Subway: Activist Performance through Mediation. In: De Michelis, G., Tisato, F., Bene, A., Bernini, D. (eds) Arts and Technology. ArtsIT 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37982-6_1
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