How do you measure, measure a year evacuation route? Self-described new media artist, kanarinka is undertaking a project to evacuate Boston and count every breath taken. She's up to 20,271 to date over the combined eight runs. Each leg is mapped out on a Google map and recorded as a podcast you can listen to. She's estimated that by the time she's done with the project she'll have taken 154,000 breaths while running the entire evacuation route system.

The project is an attempt to measure our post-9/11 collective fear in the individual breaths that it takes to traverse these new geographies of insecurity

It takes 154,000 breaths to evacuate Boston consists of a series of running performances in public space (2007), a web podcast of breaths (2007), and a gallery installation of the archive of breaths (2008).

The Boston CyberArts festival hosted an installation at the Friday night gala at the Hotel @ MIT, but the project is only partially done. Kanarinka will continue running and continue creating podcasts. A podcast of heavy breathing isn't necessarily the most interesting to listen to, unless of course you're into that sort of thing, but the collective project and statement about "new geographies of insecurity" with accompanying photographs, maps, and calculations will make for a stunning installation when complete.

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