social software seven projects in this top-level category
naked on pluto by Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk & Dave Griffiths Naked on Pluto proposes a playful yet disturbing online game world, developed with Free/ Libre Open Source Software, which parodies the insidiously invasive traits of much “social software”. The city of “Elastic Versailles” is animated by the quirky combinatorial logics of a community of fifty seven AI bots that glean Facebook data from subscribers to the game.
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Polishness by Ian Wojtowicz This website encourages visitors to contemplate aspects of Polish identity by submitting two search terms to compare. Google counts the search results of each term and graphs the results as a redrawn Polish flag. This action of producing and evaluating binary terms provides a vehicle for thinking about Polish identity and stereotypes. [...]
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Dreaming of You by Richard Caceres and Jamie Burkart Dreaming of You is a system for tapping into your computer's dreams.
There are three parts to this program. The first is a screen saver that visualizes
screenshots that it downloads from a web server. The second is a program that periodically
takes screenshots of your computer and uploads them to the server. [...]
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Schalalala - a fan scarf remix project by Rüdiger Schlömer, Jan Lindenberg "Schalalala" is an experimental remix project on the basis of fan-scarfs. The basic idea is to misuse the fan-scarf as a communication medium, recombining existing scarfs into new statements and therefore enabling the fans to active wording.
The project name refers to its character and structural relations ("Schal" is German for scarf), which go from playful-musical to humourous-subversive usage [...]
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WALLRIGHT by Diana Antunes, Flávia Neves, João Filipe, Luis Confraria, Nuno Caldeira The Wallright project was spawned from the idea that every one of us is an artist.
Conceptually speaking, one of the main points to consider is the fact that, traditionally, art is associated with small elites. With this project, so long that we manage to integrate in it an artistic side, we intend to bring the masses closer to a less than common means of expression for most. [...]
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spheres by Santiago Ortiz Spheres shaped by dialogue, a net of semantical combinations. The richness of words consists in their relations with one another. A single pair of words placed together is enough to create narrative, reflections, theories, poetry, humour, or even the arbitrary…
Spheres is a project in constant evolution. [...]
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Polyptique by Frederic Madre & Veronique Muller a sort of image only mute wiki
where one can add images and pages
away, a social software experiment
there are 3 main elements to polyptique
pages, images and users all are stored in a mysql db, polyptique being
developed in php
at first we had to create one seed page, it's here
http://polyptique.maisonpop.fr/images.php?Page=1
there was only the bonnie and clyde picture there and the [...]
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