By using AI to anonymise the Russian soldiers, the artist points the finger at the Russian government’s failure to take responsibility for these deaths
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Exploitation Forensics is a collection of maps and documents created as a result of investigations conducted in the last few years by the SHARE Lab. The maps will help visitors explore the invisible layers of contemporary technological black boxes and their fractal supply chains, exposing various forms of hidden labour and the exploitation of material resources and data
The artist’s work investigates issues as different from each other as perception, international power networks, religion, changes in the human condition through technology, surveillance and electronic and physical warfare
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The book and exhibition ‘Networked Disruption’ highlights the mutual interferences between business, art and disruption. Because it brings together the heterogeneous practices of hackers, artists, networkers, whistleblowers, activists and entrepreneurs, the concept is dense in reflections, provocations and references to contemporary society
KLE – Kit de Libertad de Expresión (or Freedom of Speech Kit) is a portable digital device that allows people from all over the world to participate to remote protests by sending and displaying text messages in public space. The interactive banner is (unsurprisingly) inspired by the record number of social protests that took place in Spain in 2011. It is estimated that over 23.000 demonstrations have been organised that year around the country
This year’s edition of the FutureEverything festival in Manchester brought a well-known and much discussed phenomenon to the fore: participatory culture. From Wikileaks to Iceland’s crowd-sourced constitution, to the Arab Spring, participatory technologies have demonstrated their powerful political potential. The world of culture is harnessing the same connected energies with projects that involve citizen scientists cataloging celestial bodies in the Milky Way galaxy, crowd-curated photo exhibitions and of course the many projects created by artists and designers who either directly use collective action or bring it under a new light
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rep.licants.org is a web service allowing users to install an artificial intelligence (bot) on their Facebook and/or Twitter account. From keywords, content analysis and activity analysis, the bot attempts to simulate the activity of the user, to improve it by feeding his account and to create new contacts with other users. Quick Q&A with the artist
What happens when we are “tagging” , “posting” and “sharing” our experiences and opinions in platforms such as those of Facebook, YouTube, flickr or del.icio.us? Are we really connecting and interacting or are we also forming the content and the structure of the social web itself?
Two site-specific projects at the Contemporary Art Space in Castellon engage with the theme of ‘remodeled spaces and minimal interventions.’ One is a semi-transparent space for mediation, the other is a community of plants
Maya Lotan is about to launch the fantastic flirting service which i discovered back in July 2005 when […]
Justin Hall has been working on a new concept for Multiplayer Online Games for his Masters degree at […]
Katharina Birkenbach (aka Ponypink), an Amsterdam- and soon Berlin-based designer, has just launched a pretty fresh social networking […]
Finland- and UK-based artist-researchers Loca were running their project in downtown San Jose. They had molded hollow concrete […]
mates is a location-based social networking system developed at the University of Michigan and aimed at introducing and […]
The interactive name tag helps people connect, reports Agenda live, Inc. “Interactive tags developed by Rick Borovoy, co-founder […]
Userradio, by Californai-based August Black, is a set of tools allowing people to make their own collaborative radio […]
“A Social Networks Visualisation at Ars Electronica” by W. Bradford Paley and Jefferson Y. Han. I was one […]
“A Small World” is an exclusive social network for well-bred members. They can meet electronically and exchange advice […]
WhoLivesNearYou homepage in July 2004 started posing questions such as ‘ever seen a neighbor that you have always […]
Otara wants to host New Zeland’s first Computer Clubhouse, a centre aimed at education, not recreation. It would […]
Sending text messages via mobile phones is helping deaf people to interact with the hearing community, according to […]
Pachinko is a Japanese game where a player purchases balls and feeds them into a machine. The balls […]
SmallPlanet, a Los Angeles-based startup, created three location-based applications for mobile devices they are planning on rolling out […]
Geekdinner is a service that ‘opened to the world’ last month to help you, the geek, organize a […]
Online social networking services are said to do much for businesses. Xeni Jardin interviewed entrepreneurs, researchers, business consultants […]
Yellow Arrow is a spatial annotation project that started in Brooklyn (NY) in which anyone can mark places […]
Auracle is a networked sound instrument, controlled by the voice, played and heard over the Internet. No need […]
Paname Ensemble has launched two weeks ago the first metro and RER map of bloggers from Paris and […]
Casey Fenton, a 26-year-old web consultant from Alaska, launched CouchSurfing, a networking site that puts like-minded travellers from […]
Ben Hyde is thinking on a new kind of reputation system that allows its participants to remain anonymous. […]
Imagine you’re looking for information that is complicated, too new to be part of an knowledge base, or […]
Wallflowerz is an online social network that pays users (yes, I repeat, it PAYS you) for helping people […]
The first “Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web” will take place in […]
1UP is a digital lifestyle aggregator brings social networking into a context of gamers by matching them up […]
Jeffrey Heer, student in Information Visualization and Presentation, is working on Vizster, an interactive visualization tool for online […]
Produced by pervasive game developpers It’s Alive, Supafly is a location-based virtual soap opera in which players have […]
Testers seem absolutely thrilled about this use of the VoIP technology: SmartMeeting is a new conferencing and collaboration […]
Bologna is the first Italian city to enter the Open Guide community. Related entry: Forget about the “Guide […]
Based on Friendster, Dogster allows you to post pictures of your pet, create a page for it and […]
Encounter Bubbles is a visualization tool that enables users to explore their social encounters in new ways. It […]