Dearest Participants in Happiness is a Choice!

Our next public experiment will be Saturday, March 12th from 6pm to 1am at The Institution Theater, interrupted briefly by the purest form of improvised brainstorming entertainment, TARANTULA – Dynamic Improv from 10pm-11pm.

Happiness is a Choice Experiment #22.5 is a media-making co-gallery / flowstate / feedback / co-laboratory space. It is a presentation ofdystheatre’s VAIL: Visible and Invisible Light, the fourth iteration of our mind-mapping installation calibration, and an ongoing call for public discourse on artful strategies for enacting change in one’s self and one’s community, for finding meaning, strengthening memory, and balancing proactive productivity with emotional well-being. Basically, we just love to get feedback and talk about making stuff. Surveys = SCIENCE!!

Practitioner Mi will also be continuing HIAC’s FULL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS of SYSTEMS, Media Asset Management, and progress tracking via M.A.P.P.IN.G.S. For more information on MAPPINGS:

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BETA-TESTING A NEW SCIENTIFIC TOOL

We attempted to calibrate this map for the first time on September 12th, 2015, and then again on October 10th of that year. We believe that it will take at least 10 iterations to find an authentic degree of accuracy at this installation.

This is STILL a beta test, I repeat, this is only a beta test. A work in progress. The third of many steps to create an interactive and immersive installation that will allow one to journey through one’s own timeline and those of humankind and the cosmos, make hypotheses about the connections between events, fiddle with variables, run tests, analyze data, determine meanings, mess with video, hear audio, feed Jeff a banana in Istanbul, and chart your own metapsychocartographical adventures in science. Feedback along the way is always appreciated. Help us help science help us to help you help science!

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

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EXTENDED STATEMENT

Meta-Cartography is a new medium through which we believe it will be possible to experience infinity and the loss of self, to lucidly transfer memories and meanings amongst members of the human species based on any finite period of time and space.

The current working hypothesese for those following along in your lab manuals are as follows:

1) We should be able to source a number of new meanings from decade-old memories by asking our participants to answer a series of questions regarding a collection of video artifacts.

2) We should also be able to provide our participants a better user experience this time thru the use of flowcharting and physically mapping and directing the user experience via signage as they enter the space.

Stay tuned for the release of more detailed experimental data and a brand new Happiness Lab Manual this year!

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