'antisocial notworking' is a repository of projects that explore the pseudo-agency 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 concern is how the Internet is increasingly charactised as a 'platform' (or collective machine) for 'social' uses, but to question what is meant by the term social in such descriptions. Although social networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the nature of this participation? What alternatives (or antitheses) can be identified?
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/antisocial/
By 'anti-social', I do not mean (to be) unfriendly but to highlight that social networking platforms are already anti-social in as much as they display contradictory tendencies (both connecting and disconnecting socialities). In this way, and undoubtedly part of a backlash to the popularity of social networking in general, I am not referring to 'antisocial web' sites such as Hatebook that enable you to create a list of people that you don't want to be friends with (as opposed to Facebook that allows you to collect friends).
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/notes.php
To submit a project, go to:
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/form.php
The projects and other online resources are available as part of the subdomain 'project.arnolfini' - an online experimental production and management system:
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk
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