Subway: Activist Performance through Mediation

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.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2013
• Where: ARTSIT
• Authors: Andrew Quitmeyer, Michael Nitsche, Ava Ansari
• Keywords: ARTSIT 2013