Archive for January, 2010
Here is some beautiful digital art-making. It’s giving me some ideas about The Facebook Project (tentative title that I’m not really happy with…). Enjoy. [ READ MORE ]
Do you know how many friends your brain can handle? Well, one guy thinks that it’s 150. And that counts for Facebook too. [ READ MORE ]
This is something I wish I would have thought of myself: “AFP writes that five French journalists have agreed to lock themselves in a farmhouse in France for five days, where they’ll write news based only on what they read on Twitter and Facebook.” You can read a bit more about it here. [ READ MORE ]
We just got word that we’ll be presenting a performative talk at PSi #16 Performing Publics in Toronto, 9-13 June 2010. The talk will focus on our life in the Fishbowl – if you’re up north, hope to see you there! [ READ MORE ]
Images of the most recent performance by the Cover Artists. Photos courtesy of Candida Alvarez, curator for Sub-City Projects in Chicago. [ READ MORE ]
So we’ve been interested in identity and its implications in the digital age. In fact, a lot of our work has been a version of the analog investigation of avatars. Here’s a link to an interesting article from WIRED about what happened when one man tried to disappear without a digital trace – into an [ READ MORE ]
We were babysitting my 12 (soon to be 13) year old niece this weekend, and I couldn’t help but watch and wonder at her communication forms and habits. She was generally texting and on facebook at the same time, but she only used the telephone as a phone (a live voice transmittal device) twice: once [ READ MORE ]
You can really learn a lot reading facebook status updates. A few of my favorite quotes from some of our facebook friends (fbfs): Dax Tran-Caffee “successfully traded a painting for poetry – creativity is the currency of the FUTURE” Tif Bullard “life is full of flakes – some snow, some human.” Joshua Esmanuel-David Slater “I wish I didn’t [ READ MORE ]