Be Your Own Souvenir – Old St, London – 23/24 September 2011 #digitalart @alphavillefest Create a statue of yourself with kinect and 3D printers in the streets of Hackney Red Market, Old Street (ex-foundry ) http://www.blablablab.org/ PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2011 International Competition for CyberArts Honorary Mention Be Your Own Souvenir connects street users, arts and science, linking them to under-lying alternative spaces and their own realities. The audience are released from established roles in a perspective exchange: spectator-performer, artist-tourist, observer-object. blablabLAB ES, 2010-1 Be Your Own Souvenir connects street users, arts and science, linking them to under-lying alternative spaces and their own realities. The audience are released from established roles in a perspective exchange: spectator-performer, artist-tourist, observer-object. The user is both producer and consumer in this unique art installation and project. Be Your Own Souvenir invites the viewer to perform the role of and become a human statue, with a free personal souvenir as a reward: a small figurine of the participant, printed three-dimensionally from a volumetric reconstruction of their form, generated by the use of a structured light scanner.blablabLAB is a collaborative collective structured around transdisciplinary collaboration. They imagine strategies and create tools to make society face its complex reality (urban, technological, alienated and hyper-consumerist). It works without preset formats, approaching the knowledge generation, property and diffusion of it. www.byos.blablablab.org Fri 23rd: 16:00-20:00 in Shoreditch, Redmarket Square (Behind old Foundry) Sat 24th: 16:00-20:00 in Shoreditch, Redmarket Square (Behind old Foundry)