Flash Invaders

Flash Invaders appears in Cockroaches 1, Modi 0: India’s remarkable protests as the app fans use to find and scan Invader mosaics. The source says players have logged more than 47 million flashes, turning scattered street artworks into a global scoring system.

In the wiki, Flash Invaders is a useful counterexample to phone-only attention. The app uses the phone as a scoring and recognition device, but the behavior it rewards is physical searching, looking up, walking streets, and noticing tile mosaics in public space.

Connections

• Invader - artist whose mosaics the app organizes.
• Street Art Game Layer - concept for game mechanics layered onto public art.
• Caitlin Talbot - contributor whose London walk demonstrates the app experience.
• Attention Industrialization - broader wiki branch around mediated attention, here bent back toward physical surroundings.