IMAGING DETROIT

>> We structured a virtual gift shop.

And then we began to track. We tracked traffic on Google. On Facebook. We came up with strategies to gain a following on Twitter. As MODCaR, we were networking, studying the conventions, grammars and idiosyncrasies of public and imagistic communication.

We put out an open call for participation: Imaging Detroit is a collective event and a public assemblage. Between September 21st and 23rd, 2012 the Metropolitan Observatory for Digital Culture and Representation will host an unprecedented open assessment and contemporary anthology of Detroit as local and global image. This 48-hour long temporary screening, exhibition, and performance venue - in Detroit and on Detroit - will MODCaR web traffic geolocated/06.12-09.12