Posts Tagged ‘ networking ’
A lot of our work lately has been involved with looking at the human:digital interface. Is that the same as the human:machine interface? What are the differences that I am interested in exploring? How does our work in Performing the Self (the avatar as the real), as well as our work with the digital (trying to perfect our way of speaking to a camera by interviewing ourselves, editing, memorizing and repeating), etc. open up these ideas – but on the other side of the machine equation?
This guy Graham is a new media artist doing some interesting work – just learned about him from the Media Modes symposium being held at the School of Visual Arts, NY in November. Check him out.
What does it mean to be someone’s friend?
The dictionary on my dashboard says it’s “a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically exclusive of sexual or family relations.”
My facebook says that I have 337 friends. Some of them are family. I have had sex with at least 2 of them, and there are probably close to 100 that I have nothing that even imitates a “bond of mutual affection.” In fact, many of them I have never met. They are friends of friends, organizations that have facebook pages, “friend collectors.”
So what does it mean, in this digital age, to be someone’s friend?
I feel like there are all kinds of connotations that go with the word: someone you can turn to when you need something, someone that will help you, listen to you, go see a movie, have coffee…in other words, someone that you would feel comfortable spending time with in the flesh. Someone that’s more than just an acquaintance. Someone who would be there for you.