April 27, 2009

Global Lives Project Making Human Encyclopedia

The Global Lives Project is seeking help making a collaborative online video encyclopedia of human life experiences. Global Lives is an international collective of filmmakers, designers, architects, activists and institutions from around the globe, including the U.S., Japan, Brazil and Malawi. The goal is to record 24 hours in the lives of 10 people that roughly represent the diversity of our planet’s population, creating an innovative video installation with the materials. Local teams participate in a process-of-elimination procedure for choosing the basic demographic characteristics of their subjects based upon geography, gender, age, income and religion. Shoots have been done with a 57-year-old cable-car driver in San Francisco and a hip-hop and rap singer from the Brazil. The Project is currently seeking involvement from video makers, exhibition hosts, translators and funders. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham

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