[spectre] Web 2.0 Suicide Machine @ Drop Shadow Talks, Berlin

[johannes p osterhoff]

Talk 8 on July 8 (Tue), 7 pm @ BTK Berlin

Gordan Savicic, moddr_
"Committing Web 2.0 Suicide"

http://dropshadowtalks.com
http://suicidemachine.org


This Talk
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Liberate your newbie friends with a Web 2.0 suicide! The Web 2.0 Suicide 
Machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking 
profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with 
your Web 2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website 
which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the Web 2.0 
suicide scripts are maintained. Our service currently runs with 
Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn! Gordan Savicic will speak about 
this acclaimed project. Talk in German.


The Drop Shadow Talks
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The digital drop shadow is the most popular effect in computer graphics 
today. Easily applied, it made its way to modern graphic design and 
advertising. It raises typography and objects from a flattened 
background into three-dimensionality—and thus significance.
With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect 
entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it 
raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a 
visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. 
Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo 
three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet 
remains tied to its flat medium.
Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the 
office it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon.
The Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually 
enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening 
lectures the Drop Shadow Talks present art and projects influenced and 
inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.


Location
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The talks are located at Berliner Technischen Kunsthochschule
in room J/K, second floor. Please ring.
Admission is free.

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (BTK)
Hochschule für Gestaltung (FH)
Bernburger Straße 24-25, D-10963 Berlin


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johannes p osterhoff, M.A.
Dozent für Text und Interaktion

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (FH)
University of Applied Sciences
Bernburger Str. 24-25, 10963 Berlin

www.btk-fh.de
Tel. +49 30 25358708
Fax. +49 30 26949605