KeyTweeter, Twitting Without Filters. It has been almost ten years since the launch of Life Sharing by the (then) enfants terribles of net.art known as 0100101110101101.org. The project, which lasted three years, involved the automatic publication in real time of all the data stored on the artists' computer. Documents, emails and incomplete projects could all be accessed via a web interface mirroring the local file system. With the provocative slogan "privacy is stupid", Life Sharing anticipated the mass sharing mania that informs the contemporary web 2.0 industry. The most representative example of this trend is the success of the microblogging service Twitter, which enables people to publish short updates from various devices. Artistic interventions on Twitter aren't really the norm but some interesting examples can foretell the emergence of a new strand of net.art.
Read more about this on Neural.it - by Paolo Pedercini http://www.neural.it/art/2009/07/keytweeter_twitting_without_fi.phtml _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
