Collective Action!

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Collective Action! is a performance game that invites you to work together with other participants to perform creative, collective actions that respond to climate change issues. Start by using your phone to explore the Collective Action! mobile website, create a unique avatar, join a team, and prepare to perform! For every action you perform over the course of the night, you’ll earn a point for yourself and your team, which you can track on the website’s game leaderboard.

Collective Action! draws inspiration from the expansive history of non-competitive group games ranging from the New Games Foundation to fluxus experiments and performances, and earth day activities. Explore: how can your actions as an individual have a larger impact when they are performed in collaboration with others?

Originally presented at Northern Spark 2017 with the support of Northern Lights.mn and The McKnight Foundation.

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Sara Fowler is a Colorado-raised, Minneapolis-based human specializing in graphic design and illustration. She previously worked in-house for the Aspen Art Museum and the Walker Art Center, and is an MCAD graduate (BFA '12). She was recently honored to receive Print Magazine's 2015 Regional Design Annual award, Best in Far West for exhibition catalogue design.

Ben Moren is a Minneapolis based media artist working at the intersection of filmmaking, performance, and creative coding. He is an Assistant Professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design teaching in the Media Arts department and the Web+Multimedia Environments major.

Tyler Stefanich uses installations, performances, and software-based systems to explore issues related to history, memory and identity. Currently he lives and works in Los Angeles, California, as manager of the UCLA Game Lab, a creative research center that combines art and technology.

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About

Collective Action! invites you to work together with other participants to perform creative, collective actions responding to climate change issues. Start by using your phone to explore the Collective Action! mobile website, create a unique avatar, join a team, navigate to our physical game sites (located at multiple Northern Spark hubs), and prepare to perform! For every action you perform over the course of the night, you’ll earn a point for yourself and your team, which you can track on the website’s game leaderboard.

Each Collective Action! game site will activate the climate change theme for its given Northern Spark location, making each instance of Collective Action! a completely unique experience in performance and play. At the Collective Action! site in the water-themed location Little Mekong, you might work together with the entire audience to perform a rainstorm, or with two or three other players to envision a futuristic water-filtration system!

Collective Action! draws inspiration from the expansive history of non-competitive group games ranging from the New Games Foundation, to fluxus experiments and performances, and earth day activities. Explore: how can your actions as an individual have a larger impact when they are performed in collaboration with others?

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Morgan Erickson-Davis
John Kim

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Credits

McKnight Foundation
Northern Lights.mn
Northern Spark
MCAD
Macalester College
UCLA Game Lab

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In this game, we invite you to collaborate with other festival-goers to perform creative, collective actions that respond to climate change issues.
Use our map to navigate to the physical Collective Action! game sites located throughout the festival. Once you've reached a game, visit this mobile website, and check in to play!
On your turn, your phone will prompt you to perform an action in the play area with other festival-goers! Be creative and work together-you might be asked to perform a rainstorm, or imagine a futurstic water-filtration system!
Earm a point for you and your team each time you perform an action. Check the online scorboard to see how the points stack up.

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UCLA

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus system after the original University of California campus in Berkeley (1873).[10] It offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.[11] UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students,[6] and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the most applicants for any American university.

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MCAD

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is a private, nonprofit four-year and postgraduate college specializing in the visual arts. Located in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, MCAD currently enrolls more than 700 students offering education in painting, drawing, animation, entrepreneurial studies, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, photography, filmmaking, illustration, graphic design, book arts, furniture design, liberal arts, comic art, web design, and sustainable design. MCAD is one of just a few major art schools to offer a major in comic art.

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Tyler Stefanich (b.1985) is an artist and designer. His work, through installations and performances, uses software-based systems to explore issues related to history, memory and identity. Stefanich received a BFA in Interactive Media from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and earned an MFA from UCLA in Media Art. Currently he lives and works in Los Angeles, California, as manager of the UCLA Game Lab, a creative research center that combines art and technology as well as Web Director at Northern Lights.mn, a media arts organization based in Minnesota.

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Ben Moren is a Minneapolis based media artist working at the intersection of filmmaking, performance, and creative coding. His projects investigate the disappearing separation between the digital and natural worlds. He has created site specific and mixed reality projects for the Northern Spark Festival in Minneapolis, Kultur Park in Berlin, and the Weisman Art Museum. He has exhibited at the Soap Factory, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Chicago Artists Coalition, and the Beijing Film Academy. He co-founded and facilitates the WZFR, an experimental rural filmmaking residency in western Wisconsin. He is an Assistant Professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design teaching in the Media Arts department and the Web+Multimedia Environments major.