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	<title> p.s.: QUANTIFY WHOLEHEARTEDLY </title>
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		Quantify Wholeheartedly
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	  <h2>Quantify With Others</h2>
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		  <h3>Collective Interface That Permits Plural Body Measurements</h3>
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		   title="Step in here and start contributing your steps">
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		<p>While you walk this app (we) synthesise the data from your
		phone accelerometer, measure the number of steps you make, and
		feed it back to the construction of an amazing drawing.</p>

		<p>You are not alone into this, contrary to usual 'self
		tracking app' this one allows you to collectively contribute
		your steps to the project. The data you give out will not be
		fed by to you in bars and charts, but will generate a
		beautiful drawing.</p>
		  

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		  <p>Opening at
			<a href="http://constantvzw.org/site/QUANTIFY-WHOLEHEARTEDLY.html">Constant VZW</a>
			on June, 8<sup>th</sup>, 2017.
			<br><small>Quantify Wholeheartedly was made possible by a
			  prototype grant from DICRéAM.</small></p>
		  
		  <p>In a world where digital practices are omnipresent,
		  everything is measurable, including the number of steps we
		  make, the amount of water we drink daily or even one's level
		  of happiness. Self-quantification inhabits everyday
		  practices. It becomes a game in which our body is envisioned
		  as a set of numbers and charts that suppose to coach us
		  towards a "better life".</p>

		  <p>Self-quantification is at the origin of forms of body
		  representations that blur the boundaries between what is
		  considered to be direct social control (measuring and
		  quantification) and other forms of spectacle where bodies
		  are constrained in aesthetic modelled forms and visualised as
		  charts.</p>

		  <p>This project was launched within the Brussels' women and
		  free software
		  group <a href="http://www.samedies.be/"><strong>Samedies</strong></a>
		  to explore the differences between community health support
		  groups and commercial social networks organised by the
		  corporations that develop self tracking
		  applications. Participants in Samedies developed their own
		  interfaces and tools and came up with a series of small
		  games that propose a different approach, both feminist and
		  collective.</p>

		  <p>The 'butterfly' image is
		<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_diagnosis_of_diseases_of_women_%281905%29_%2814576843969%29.jpg">in the public domain</a>.
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