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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

Friends

Aram Bartholl

2008

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The project 'Friends' is a workshop on web based social networks like Myspace, Facebook, Friendster, Orkut (among others) brought down to a classic paper friendship book involving the functionality and language of the web. All visitors are invited to sample their own paper friendship book from a range of 'hardware plugins' featuring different low tech elements. Like in social networks the participants of the workshop are then invited to share their books, collect friends and exchange information in various ways. From classic pen drawing, instant photo stickers to custom stamps all kinds of unplugged communications are involved.

How do the web based social services influence our real life social networks? Who is your friend and how many do you have? Where is the difference in getting to know each other on the net or in real life?

Friends was commissioned by Futuresonic in 2008.

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