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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.
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!
Images of the most recent performance by the Cover Artists.
Photos courtesy of Candida Alvarez, curator for Sub-City Projects in Chicago.
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 entirely new identity.
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 to ask her babysitter for the week if there was more baloney, and once to let her friend know that she was leaving the house and would see her in about 5 minutes (said friend lives about 3 blks away).
Anyhow, it’s got me to thinking a lot about the way that we will communicate in the future – will any of our communication be technologically unassisted? Is a voice-conversation turning into a nostalgic event? (This is also something we’re exploring as part of the UPP) Anyway, here’s a quote from an interesting article in the NYT:
“But the children, teenagers and young adults who are passing through this cauldron of technological change will also have a lot in common. They’ll think nothing of sharing the minutiae of their lives online, staying connected to their friends at all times, buying virtual goods, and owning one über-device that does it all…”
Read the full article here.
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 have to pay rent and medical bills and school tuition and other bills so I can shop all day. But then I would be living in my mama’s basement…I still look good so it all works out.” 
It all started with trying to identify a painting with nested green squares.
We had a strong feeling that the painter’s name started with an A.
A few Google searches later, we found it. But the image led us to this great website out of Amsterdam.
“The Institute of Artificial Art.”
Enjoy.
“…Never has the American art world functioned so efficiently as a full-service marketing industry on the corporate model…” [full text here]
From February of 2009, but still relevant none the less. Worth a read.
The last paragraph in particular might even give one hope.