[spectre] antisocial notworking

[geoff cox]

ANTISOCIAL NOTWORKING
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/antisocial/

'antisocial notworking' is a repository of projects that explore the  
pseudo-agency of online social platforms. The concern is how the  
Internet is increasingly charactised as a 'platform' (or collective  
machine) for 'social' uses, but to question what is meant by the terms  
in such descriptions. Although social networking platforms rely on  
user-generated content, what is the nature of this participation? What  
alternatives (or antitheses) can be identified?

We are looking to add examples of existing and new projects to our  
'antisocial notworking' repository that address these themes in  
uncompromising ways. To submit a project, go to:
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/form.php

The project is launched with a selection of existing projects,  
including: Wayne Clements's 'logo_wiki' (2007); Linda Hilfling's  
'Participation 0.0 - Part I' (2007); Ubermorgen.com, Alessandro  
Ludovico, Paolo Cirio's 'Google Will Eat Itself' (2005) & 'Amazon  
Noir' (2006).

Also featured is Rui Guerra's 'www_hack' (2008), a script installed on  
the host site allowing all visitors to a single page to observe each  
others mouse movements and to reflect on the server-client relationship:
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/www_hack/

'antisocial notworking' is launched on 1st May at Futuresonic 2008:  
Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas, Manchester, UK.

Some notes on the project are here:
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/notes.php

The projects and other online resources are available as part of the  
subdomain 'project.arnolfini' - an online experimental production and  
management system:
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk