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Helping Strangers Participate through Instructions: Deconstructing the MP3 Experiment

Museum 2.0

For about half an hour, hundreds of people play together, silently, as directed by disembodied voices inside their headphones. The voice tells you what to do –stand up, shake hands, play Twister, make silly shapes—and you do it. Two and a half minutes in, the “omnipotent voice” Steve introduces himself.