Abstract
No abstract availableThis article was originally published by Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, as part of The International Journal of Screendance, Volume 2 (2012), Parallel Press. It is made available here with the kind permission of Parallel Press.
Highlights
While traveling through Tokyo in the early–2000s, media theorist Howard Rheingold began to notice a change taking place around him: the people walking the streets were “staring at their mobile phones instead of talking to them.”[1]
Rider Spoke asked participants to ride around the streets of London, guided along their journey by the voice of Blast Theory co-founder, Ju Row Farr
Because participants record themselves or listen to others’ recordings, Rider Spoke is a performance of the process of documentation
Summary
While traveling through Tokyo in the early–2000s, media theorist Howard Rheingold began to notice a change taking place around him: the people walking the streets were “staring at their mobile phones instead of talking to them.”[1]. Rider Spoke asked participants to ride around the streets of London, guided along their journey by the voice of Blast Theory co-founder, Ju Row Farr. Participants in Rider Spoke were prompted to either“Hide,”which allowed them to find a location related to one of Farr’s prompts such as“Find a place that your father would like and record a message about it,”[4] or “Find Others,” which allowed users to “seek” other people’s narratives located throughout the city.
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