‘Beehive’ is an ongoing artistic research experiment developed by Ars Electronica and Art Thinking Australia for collecting and contextualising video content from the activity of people.
Beehive Geelong: Reveal our city through the voices of others
In the broadest sense it is a cross-media platform for crowd sourced video documentation. Beehive serves as a metaphor: like a society of bees, registered participants swarm out, capture footage of a happening from a multitude of perspectives and then enter into the collective hive.
Working in collaboration with Art Thinking Australia and in response to Geelong City Council Cultural policies and visions, the Artist (Anne Scott Wilson) collected content from the 80 odd artworks in the Geelong After Dark festival and curated the media back into an art performance installation. The community also collected footage by using the beehive app to respond to a series of provocations about Geelong City Council's cultural vision for the future. The resulting data is categorised through the app and was later used to support policy as it reveals the voices and vision of residents of Geelong. The project attracted 2000 participants to engage with the app and visit the live performance.
This work prompted an invitation to present the work at the Pivot Innovation Conference held at Geelong on the 4th May. The Artist, accompanied by Art Thinking Australia, presented on the development of the work and her relationship to both the Council's cultural vision and the way art intersects with technology revealing human VS tech research. The work represents how artists work with technology to explore perceived losses and gains in the name of technological progress
- Text Anne Scott Wilson, Art Thinking & Ars Electronica
Beehive Geelong as part of “Reveal this City” by Anne Scott Wilson in partnership with Art Thinking and Ars Electronica.