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fbFaces [Processing, Scripts]

fbFacesis a project by Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay that deals with the issue of data accessibility on the Internet. The project is a facebook crawler, built using JavaScript & PHP, that starts at the public profile of any fb-user, saving profile image, facebook-ID and name, and afterwards continuing its way to the public profiles of the user’s friends and so on. 100.000 of these profile images were used (via Processing) to print a wallpaper for an entire room.

fbFaces is an attempt to visualize the incredible amount of data and images that we are daily overwhelmed by, so that we can neither realize our own selectivity nor consider the amount of data perceived. The wallpaper transforms the room itself into a flood of information. It surrounds us, cannot be estimated from distance; details can only be caught through determined selection.…..What is normal, what is exaggerated? How are we dealing with that flood of information and in which way is it changing us? How important is image cultivation on the Internet and how important becomes my “facebook-me”? 

Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay study “New Media” at the University of Visual Arts and Design Kassel, Germany – taught by Kim Asendorf.

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Posted on: 29/07/2011

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  • Varvara

    you can do much more with the public profiles on FB! super famous project: Face to Facebook by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico http://www.face-to-facebook.net