Bienenstock is an ongoing artistic research experiment for collecting and contextualizing video content from people during live happenings. In the broadest sense it is a cross-media system for crowdsourced video documentation. Bienenstock is the German word for beehive, and this serves as the central metaphor: like in a society of bees, registered participants swarm out, capture footage of an event from a multitude of perspectives and return it (to the hive) to be ingested into the collective pool.

Increased platform

First developed at the Ars Electronica Festival 2013 this year the project will be taken to a new level with many more cameras and participants as well as increased platforms for mobile content delivery. The main installation and info point is located inside the Bus on Spittelwiese. Particpants can collect and drop off their camera here.

Download the app!

In addition to borrowing cameras to use during your time at the festival there is a mobile application that allows everyone to collect footage to be included in the Bienenstock. This app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store; simply search for ‘Bienenstock’.