In preparation for an upcoming exhibition at Maryland Art Place (MAP) Dear
Internet will be accepting letters via the Dear Internet blog accessible from
http://www.dearinternet.org
Dear Internet v1. investigates how networked technologies become platforms for
the paradoxes of social relations in digital culture. Connection, fear,
communication, alienation, interactivity, dislocation, intimacy, disembodiment,
are all possible and often simultaneously present in our attempts to interact
with others online and off.
The installation: A live screening of Dear Internet develops, with the help of
participant input, over the course of the exhibition and serves as a partial
expression of networked consciousness. Content for Dear Internet v1. is
collected from 2 primary sources:
- A participatory blog that forms a collective memory of "users" experience in
networked living. Dear Internet (the blog) is an unmoderated site for the
publishing and archiving of letters written by Internet users concerning their
relationships with the Internet. Through http://dearinternetuser.blogspot.com,
users may address the internet directly and indulge in their deepest thoughts,
feelings and fantasies with the abandonment, comfort and protection that only
online anonymity can provide. Texts gathered from
http://dearinternetuser.blogspot.com are remixed and projected in the gallery
while they are read with text to speech software.
- Live IP surveillance cameras are accessed using a variety of well-known
advanced google search techniques and projected in the gallery space. While
these surveillance cameras are accessible to any internet user, they remain
largely unknown to casual internet users. However, the cameras have attained
significant attention from hackers, technophiles, security professionals, bored
surfers and others. The interest no doubt comes from the common presumption
that these surveillance cameras are left unsecure unintentionally by camera
owners who have neglected to set-up camera security features. Internet users
are often able to access full control of an accessed camera's, zoom, pan,
snapshot and other features. Camera controls are removed from the interface
for the Dear Internet installation and the cameras are set to refresh every 30
seconds.
http://www.dearinternet.org
a project by mark cooley and edgar endress
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