Bienenstock is an ongoing artistic researchexperiment developed by Ars Electronica for collecting andcontextualizing video content from visitors during Mons 2015 –European capital of culture. In the broadest sense it is across-media system for crowdsourced video documentation.Bienenstock is the German word for beehive, and this serves as thecentral metaphor: like in a society of bees, registeredparticipants swarm out, capture footage of an event from amultitude of perspectives and return it (to the hive) to beingested into the collective pool.
- Participate in the experiment by downloading the mobile phoneapplication form your device App Store! Simply search for“Beehive”.
- Make your own Beehive by entering a personal tag in the mobileApp!
- View the videos you tag at Café Europa or online at http://beehive.mons2015.eu/