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GLASS GHOST RESIDENCY
Lyfe ™ is a fictional software company that has the ability to track and analyze users emotions anywhere online. Glass Ghost’s PS122 show, “Welcome to Lyfe” creates a fictional “expo” for this company, inviting clients and users alike to see the wonders of the company’s motto,“Getting to know you better than you know yourself.”
Thirty minutes before the show (or advance online), Lyfe invites the audience to take the “My Lyfe Survey ™ ” asking them cryptic questions, and to take a “selfie” as well as to join all Lyfe social media. Glass Ghost’s interactive set is played against a backdrop of audience members’ emotions and memories, which are featured on the three projection screens as a showcase of Lyfe’s powerful Emot-alytic software.
Even if you can’t come, we encourage you to be a participant of the show by filling in a survey from the fictional company Lyfe ™ here:
http://Lyfe.guru
The goal of “Welcome to Lyfe” is to question who we are and become in the process of data mining, and to explore online targeting as a way to quantify and mold the elements of our emotions that makes us all unique, vulnerable and human. How much of our lives do we want to be “known” and “sold?” How much can software really know us? What does it mean to be authentic in the 21st century? The music of Glass Ghost serves as an underpinning for these questions.
An interview about the show with PS122 may be found at:
http://ps122.tv/glass-ghost
SHOWINGS
MARCH 28 and MARCH 29 at The Chain Theater http://chain-theatre.org
Info and tix:
http://www.ps122.org/glass-ghost/
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