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antisocial notworking is a repository of projects that explore the pseudo-agency of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for 'participation' with the arts sector and culture in general. The concern is how the Internet is increasingly charactised as a 'platform' (or collective machine) for 'social' uses, but to question what is meant by the term social in such descriptions. Although social networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the nature of this participation? What alternatives (or antitheses) can be identified? [...] more

Clare is Facebook

Clare Adams
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logo_wiki

Wayne Clements
logo_wiki identifies military, corporate, and governmental editors of Wikipedia ('the Free Encyclopedia'). It does this by tracing back the editor's [...] more

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Amazon Noir

UBERMORGEN.COM, Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico
THE PLOT: The Bad Guys (The Amazon Noir Crew) stole copyrighted books from Amazon by using sophisticated robot-perversion technology coded by [...] more

Feed Lack Loop

Micheal O'Connell
'Feed Lack Loop' arose out of experiments with the idea of Feedback. Using a live performer and an Avatar in [...] more

Add to Friends

Nicolas Frespech

Blue Tube

Cory Arcangel
"Blue 'Tube' is a tiny but powerful structuralist intervention into the ubiquitous video sharing site YouTube – the one-second video [...] more

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Les Liens Invisibles
Disillusion 2.0?
You were told that a new democracy of communication was possible, that the lies of corporate media were to [...] more

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Friends

Aram Bartholl
The project 'Friends' is a workshop on web based social networks like Myspace, Facebook, Friendster, Orkut (among others) brought down [...] more