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
'Feed Lack Loop' arose out of experiments with the idea of Feedback. Using a live performer and an Avatar in the Online World Second Life, Micheal O'Connell inquires whether the concept of interactivity, so lauded in contemporary culture, is about Empowerment or possibly leads to its opposite: Control. Also the liveliness, or lack of it, in virtual space is brought into question.
The event was situated in two spaces simultaneously, Ars Virtua Gallery in Second Life and as a live projection and performance at Lighthouse.
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