Metaphors of Internet. Группа авторов

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much of my work as an artist, I am interested in reversing our technological gaze: instead of using a tool or looking through a screen, I am interested in seeing technology as aesthetic, cultural, political objects. The physical relationship we form with our computers is something that is constantly re-written as we upgrade our machines and operating systems, and the history of this relationship is constantly being lost and written over as well. We have many images of server rooms, early mainframes, and depictions of computers in film and television, but we have few images of the everyday ways that we engage our computers—desks strewn with coffee mugs and soda cans, laptops propped up on random objects, spaces to work negotiated within one’s home. This project is about capturing a tiny, specific piece of that.

       Figure 5.1: Sam.

       Figure 5.2: Bellevue, USA.

       Figure 5.3: Cheddar, USA.

       Figure 5.4: Jessica, USA.

       Figure 5.5: Tenna, USA.

       Figure 5.6: Medford, New York.

       Figure 5.7: Bobbatron, Hawaii.

       Figure 5.8: Parkland, Florida.

       Figure 5.9: Dylan, Kuala Lumpur.

       Figure 5.10: Nana, Nettleton.

       Figure 5.11: White Sands, New Mexico.

       Figure 5.12: The Mouse, Portland, Oregon.

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       Migration of Self

      tijana hirsch

      Dania already had a Facebook account when she moved to Israel, and considered herself an active internet user. Facebook reached 100 million users in 2008, when Dania’s first child was born, and 500 million active users in 2010, when her twins and the Israeli Facebook Baby-Community she helped to co-create were born. As the babies and Facebook grew, so did the number of communities that Dania as an immigrant mother needed, created or joined. Some of the mothers, who had initially been involved in the Baby community with Dania, created a Kid community, then the City Specific Kid community, then many more after that. For Dania, Facebook became a tool for co-creating a digitally mediated and networked communal life. Each community served as a (co)created, (re)used, shared place that different users frequented depending on their stable and/or fleeting interests, needs, desires and hopes. Dania’s description of that period of her life paints a picture of fluid movement between various Facebook communities while by those very moves creating those communities and their boundaries. She used the space(s) as needed—for respite and information—as part of her being both an immigrant and a mother. “My Israeli aunt came over and was shocked that our six year old after three months in school could not read fluently


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