Call out - we want pictures of your SKIN!

Cloudbody / Park(ing) dayThanks for all your hair-photo-contributions for our Park(ing) Day project - we have had hair wired in from Canada, Australia, France, Sweden... and the collection is growing!

The idea is to collect digital 'pieces' of human bodies through our social networks, and use these pieces to create a final 'montage'. The images, taken by you, will be printed on sticky labels and constructed into the shape of a body, materialising our virtual connections with all of you! We will make our first body here in Brighton on Park(ing) Day, Friday 18t Sep. http://www.parkingday.org/

The latest development is that we want to include your SKIN and GROUND, so please give us a hand by giving us one or more photos of your skin or hair, and a snap of some natural ground near where you are (you can give us both or either).

Tell us your location, and mail the pics through to sara [at] gmail.com or l.oregan [at] yahoo.fr

or post it to our Facebook group page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=136730178009

For our privacy policy, see the earlier post "We need your help with "Growing Beds for Public Hair".

Tell all you friends, we want as many pictures as possible!!

We have extend the project beyond Park(ing) Day so keep sending your photos in! :)

The name for this extended project is "Growing Bodies From the Cloud". The 'cloud' is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams and as an abstraction for its complex infrastructure.

I caught a bit of a very interesting symposium at Ars Electronica, the weekend before last, 'Cloud Intelligence' (link: Isaac Sasaki is recommended) and I would say this reinforced my belief that the internet ('the cloud') is a site for rapid human behavioural evolution (if I may be so profound!). This evolution comes with a fair amount of physical inactivity and body dis-connection though... which I find hard to cope with. So, our piece could be seen as a way of materialising a body, which originates from the body-less cloud and then is fed back into it, by uploading evidence of its physical making/existance, creating a sort of spiral which i hope will expand more and more.

Check back on the 18th to see photos of the physical Park(ing) Day piece, and come by if you are in Brighton - we will be in the back streets of North Laines, somewhere between Foundry St and Tichborne St.

Thanks for taking part!