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antisocial notworking

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'antisocial notworking' is a repository of projects curated by Geoff Cox that give a critical view of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for 'participation' with the arts sector and culture in general. The Internet is increasingly characterised as 'social', but what is meant by this? Although social networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the nature of this participation? What alternatives 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, 'logo_wiki' (2007); Linda Hilfling, 'Participation 0.0 - Part I' (2007); Ubermorgen.com, Alessandro Ludovico, Paolo Cirio, ''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.

'antisocial notworking' is launched on 1st May at Futuresonic 2008.
Featuring work by Wayne Clements, Rui Guerra, and Linda Hilfling, it will also be shown as part of 'After the Net', Observatori: 9th Festival Internacional de Investigacion Artistica de Valencia, 3-29 June 2008, Valencia (http://www.observatori.com/).

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