CommonSense
Every visitor releases one organism — an icon, a colour, a word — into a shared, living ecosystem of thought.
I — The workConcept
CommonSense is a visual crowd-sourcing installation that grows a dynamic ecosystem out of its audience's thoughts. Using a mobile application, each participant creates an organism composed of an icon, a colour and a word. Charged with personal meaning, the organism joins the collective, and in doing so alters the behaviour of the whole and the meanings it produces.
The result is a slowly evolving portrait of an art fair's state of mind — what it noticed, what it wanted, what it said when nobody was asked to sign their name.
II — DocumentationPlates
III — The storyMaking & meaning
Art fairs are crowded with opinions but rarely ask the crowd for one. We wanted a work that would let thousands of visitors leave a mark without anyone's mark dominating the rest.
Built in collaboration with Eyal Gruss, the ecosystem has no author and no final state. The screenshots we kept from the fair are less documentation than specimens — frozen moments of an organism that no longer exists.