social
On CAN we refer to things as “social” when they facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through different forms of communities and networks.
The Conspiracy Capitaliser – AI, Social Media, and Profit in the Age of Misinformation
The Conspiracy Capitaliser is a research project by Robert Collins to investigate and understand the intersection between AI, social media and profit. Comprised of a device, as a non-human participant, it allows the user to explore a wide spectrum...
Black Box Cartography – A critical cartography of the Internet and beyond – Vladan Joler
Over the past few years, Vladan Joler has been working (with the help of a network of data analysts, media theorists and cyber forensic experts) to bring to light some of the hidden layers of these systems. From the invisible algorithmic factory o...
Invisible Network – A ‘social network’ for the machines
'Invisible Network' is a portable device that makes communication between machines perceptible and tangible. This device acts as a mediator between the user and the machines that surround him. Through its screen, it indicates the relations that it...
Oh my ( ) – Calling for GOD in 48 languages using Twitter API
Created by Noriyuki Suzuki, "Oh my ( )" is an installation that calls GOD in 48 languages using Twitter API. The machine monitors the Twitter timeline in real time and when a tweeted text includes a word, god ( in various languages ), speakers sou...
Go Rando – a big FU to Facebook sentiment analysis
Go Rando is a Chrome and Firefox extension by Ben Grosser that allows Facebook users to obfuscate their emotional reactions to prevent them from being surveilled and analyzed.
DOBOTONE – VIDEOGAMO’s parametric party machine
Powered by a dizzying array of parametric meta-controls, VIDEOGAMO’s ‘party console’ DOBOTONE invites (up to) four players to cycle through a strange and fiercely competitive selection of lo-fi videogames.
Bridging to Physical – 3 Projects by Lara Defayes
Created by Lara Defayes at ECAL, UV Map, Vanishing Shades and FOMO Survival Kit are a series of project produced during her studies at the art and design school in Lausanne, Switzerland. All three projects, and others that can be viewed on her web...
Follower – Attention, surveillance and physicality of social media
In the social media age, one’s importance or relevance is typically measured in online followers—as that number goes up, the level of validation we feel does too. But how would a ‘real life follower’ change those dynamics? Created by Lauren McCart...
Cuckoo – Encrypted communication using public social networks
Created by Berlin based designer Jochen Maria Weber, Cuckoo is a communication device that uses social network as a means of private communication.
LUSTlab – Colouring-in the spatial organization in Schilderswijk
Created by LUSTlab in collaboration with The Mobile City, Binnen de Lijnen is part of an ongoing research project called Public Space - Public Matter from Trancity. Over 100 children took part in colouring the playground which visualised the spati...
Icon do better – Exploring emergent property of exchanging symbols
Created by Ed Burton, Icon do better takes on a smart social twist of classic game combined with icon making.
RIOT – Game that tells the story of conflict and social unrest
RIOT by Leonard Mechiari is a game designed as a riot simulator to tell the story of conflict and social unrest, soon available for PC, Mac, iOS, Android and OUYA.
Crowdpilot for iOS – Crowdsource your conversations
Created by Lauren McCarthy, Crowdpilot lets you crowdsource your conversations by bringing a group of your friends or strangers along to listen.
Appropriating Interaction Technologies (“Social Hacking”) at ITP
AIT (“Social Hacking”), taught for the first time this semester by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald at NYU’s ITP, explored the structures and systems of social interactions, identity, and self representation as mediated by technology.
Social Networking With The Living Dead – Matt Pearson
In this social networking microcosm where the living, content generators, the dead, automated bots, spammers all share a peaceful coexistence, Matt Pearson questions his "other" self who speaks his language and says just the kind of things he woul...
Facebook Demetricator – The Unquantified Self
The use of self-tracking apps and devices is now so widespread that it is easy to overlook how much our thinking about ‘personal analytics’ is rooted in social web services. Urbana-Champaign-based media artist Benjamin Grosser’s ...
Above the Cloud – Archaeology of Social Networks
Created by Boris Meister at ECAL, Above the Cloud is an atlas about social networks archeology, death and digital marks left in distress on the internet. Boris attempts to present the complex subject and, above all, explain it by creating an objec...
Faith Condition 2012 by Lukas Franciszkiewicz – An ‘out-of-body’ experience..
Faith Condition by Lukas Franciszkiewicz is a project that attempts to address the understanding and applications of technology within the religions circles of current “media society”. Lukas is interested in the transformation of relig...
Yung Jake gets played out because you e.m-bed.de/d
In his mile-a-minute guest spot on Rob Sonic’s most recent album Sabotage Gigante, Los Angeles-based Busdriver fires off a verbal salvo about powder burns on a disk drive and generating buzz across the blogosphere. While this kind of technob...
The Poking Machine by Jasper van Loenen & Bartholomäus Traubeck
Created by Jasper van Loenen and Bartholomäus Traubeck, The Poking Machine is a wearable device that pokes you physically whenever you are poked on Facebook, no matter where you are. Online social networks are platforms for communication, enabling...
Circle of Trust [Javascript]
Created by D3, digital production company based in Sao Paolo, ‘Circle of Trust’ shows your asymmetric relationship network at Google Plus. Is there a way to visualize how each person is using and constructing this social environment? T...
fbFaces [Processing, Scripts]
fbFacesis a project by Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay that deals with the issue of data accessibility on the Internet. The project is a facebook crawler, built using JavaScript & PHP, that starts at the public profile of any fb-user, saving ...
CamBox [iPhone, Sound]
CamBox is an iPhone app by Billaboop which allows you to create beatbox clips using iPhone’s built in video camera. Each sound you make triggers the recording of a short video sequence, which is stored into a box. You can then play the boxes...
Cascade [Processing]
Cascade is the latest project by NYTimes R&D department that allows precise analysis of the structures that underly sharing activity on the web. Initiated by Mark Hansen and working with Jer Thorp and Jake Porway (Data Scientist at the Times) ...
SubMap
SubMap visualises and sonifies data pulled from one of the biggest news sites of Hungary, origo.hu.
Situationist [iPhone]
Situationist is an iPhone app that attempts to make your everyday life more experimental and unpredictable. Inspired by the Situationist International of the 50’s, who advocated experiences of life being alternative to those admitted by the ...
NewSpeak [Flash]
NewSpeak is a project created by Immo Blaese for anticensor, the 10th Web Biennial at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum. As new words are picked up every minute, NewSpeak will display the opposite meaning (antonym) based on an Orwellian scenari...
Print Stuff [Scripts]
Print Stuff is a personal project by Guido Tamino allowing strangers to use his printer at home forming basis of what will eventually become a book. Basically he is inviting everyone to print some stuff (a short message and a picture) in his room ...