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I was speaking at the http://www.socialtechsummit.org/home conference last week and presented a new artwork titled Will Henry Jenkins Hear About It?
Futuresonic was the right platform to engage and meet with a lot of people, but the art event in FaceBook, as it unfolds, creates many questions.
In particular, since a topical area of my investigation is the power relationship and the process of exploitation and enslavement of the web, I wonder if the web has been transformed in a playground within which under the masquerade of social events and civic media lurk hidden monsters. The modalities within which new categories of web platforms create and manipulate collective behaviors are a great source of understanding of the politics of the future. My personal feeling is that the intrusion and exploitation is the smaller tasks which repeated once by millions of people generate ‘quantifiable’ riches.
If eating an idea was the maximum of the revolutionary thought in the 1970s, eating an electronic word, today, may be the real revolution.
Last night at the conference dinner I arrived a few minutes late and because of that I ended up sitting together with Meredith Tromble, San Francisco Art Institute. Well a fortunate coincidence since we are working on a project together.
I am getting ready to go for a coffee break after another interesting day at the Performing Presence Conference. At 6pm we are going to be teleconferencing with Ken Goldberg. The session that finished just a few minutes ago had a good paper titled “Rimini’s Protokol’s Call Cutta and the Performance of Presence” by Dr. Wolf-Dieter Ernst at Ludwig-Maximillians University in Munich, who is now sitting beside me checking his emails while I read him my post. He has written Perfoming the Matrix: Mediating Cultural Performances.