Posts Tagged → social media

September 5th, 2006

“Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman traces the significance of Facebook’s Newsfeed launch, from the initial rage it engendered to its precipitation of the algorithm-dominated status quo of current-day digital media. Prior to Newsfeed, early internet users had static profiles and had to consciously click and search for things on the site. Upon its launch, the blueprint for media inexorably changed: we were no longer explorers, searchers, discoverers—our very experience of time collapsed into an ever-shifting present; we became passive consumers of a digital feed algorithmically curated to our every trivial fancy. “

[streaming on DIS]

Disappear with me

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“Renowned American photographer Alec Soth invites you to disappear with him, and spend a few days conversing with him through Snapchat. Over the course of the conversation, Alec will send the buyer a series of twenty-five original photos, which may vary from beautifully composed landscapes to simple shower selfies depending on how the conversation develops and the nature of the narrative that emerges. Each photo will only ever be seen by Soth and the buyer, and will disappear immediately. The buyer may choose to send Soth photos in return as part of the conversation.”

META Assassins

“META Assassins, a tournament-based assassination game, makes use of a downloadable plugin to detect browser activity and, in turn, triggers shootouts when your assigned ‘target’ lands on the same page. This concept game also features real jobs, like Streetview Surveillance and Dead Drops, where real drops are placed in your city for a fellow player to retrieve in exchange for game cash.”

(via Lost At E Minor: For creative people)

Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com

Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com
Source: www.ted.com
TED Talks In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
    If it’s really a revolution, it doesn’t take us form point A to point B. It takes us from point A to chaos    
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Would You Like Your Eggs A Little Different This Morning?

A Milano, presso la galleria Massimo De Carlo, è in corso la personale di Elmgreen & Dragset, duo di artisti scandinavi con base a Berlino. Protagonista del progetto un manichino-avatar in tre versioni: ricco, middle-class e squattrinato. Ma tutti gli Andrea Candela (questa l’identità del personaggio) sono collegati al mondo tramite reali apparecchiature tecnologiche: un computer in rete, un iPod, un cellulare. E sono titolari di abbonamenti del tram, tessere associative, profili nelle chat room.

Dagli autori del negozio di Prada nel deserto e della roulotte in gitarella nelle viscere della terra, una riflessione sull’identità nell’età contemporanea. Nel testo che accompagna il progetto si legge:

Sei un essere perfezionato in una società perfezionata. Post-umana. Post-sessuale. Post-individuale. Vedi i corpi perfetti nei giornali patinati e fissi le brutte facce consumate di quelli che piangono i morti in altre parti del mondo. Vuoi soddisfare i tuoi bisogni; hai bisogno di un paio di antidolorifici per alzarti; hai bisogno di musica alta e di qualcuno che ti desideri e che ti dica quanto sarà speciale questo giorno.