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    Facebook Demetricator 01 copy

22/10/2012 / Javascript

The use of self-tracking apps and devices is now so widespread that it is easy to overlook how much our thinking about 'personal analytics' is rooted in social web services. Urbana-Champaign-based media artist Benjamin Grosser's most recent project, Facebook Demetricator, ...
    pokingmachine01 copy

21/03/2012 / Arduino, Processing

Created by Jasper van Loenen and Bartholomäus Traubeck, The Poking Machine is a wearable device that pokes you physically whenever you are poked on Facebook, no matter where you are. Online social networks are platforms for communication, enabling us to connect anywhere ...
    Best Friends

27/01/2012 / Objects, Other

Is post social media friendship an emotional investment of diminishing returns? It really depends who you ask. Midwest-based designer Colin Pinegar's recent BFA project Best Friends definitely calls the authenticity of ubiquitous connectivity into question, or at least adds some ...
    101_00x

29/09/2011 / Other

Impulse 101 is a diptych, half painting/half beamer, 100% on the internet. Anthony Antonellis began with the 4 font characters of 8-bit Block ASCII, ░ ▒ ▓ █. The end results consists of two 100 x 100 cm canvases. The left (black) side ...
    fbFaces03x

29/07/2011 / 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, ...