Aram Bartholl |
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Friends workshop, social intervention 2008 |
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Friends is a drop-in workshop open to all visitors. The DIY process to join Friends takes 30-60 minutes for earch participant. The workshop results in a personal Friends stamp in a box and a Friends book for take away. Participants create their personal Friends stamp from their web profile picture by cutting a piece of foam mounted on a board. Each Friends user wears a badge button showing his/her profile picture. The badge helps to find each other in public space. Participants create their personal Friends book from two sorts of paper and and a card board cover. The blank pages are stamped with different template stamps. Each Friends user prints his/her basic profile data with Dymo tape in the first page of his/her book. Stamped Dymo tape letters are very usefull for fast copies with blue print paper (see below). From a selection of Web2.0 services Friends user pick the services they use, fill in their data and produce a series of Web2.0 stamps for later exchange. Two Friends user meet on the street and decide to ad each other to their books. They exchange their profile picture stamp and carbon copy the basic info (nick, name, website, blog, email ....) by joining the books and rubbing the blue print paper. The big book in the exhibition archives all Friends user, each on three pages: profile, services and friends. The profile page has a wall for handwritten messages and a small pocket for friend requests.
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The project Friends is a workshop which translates the so-called social web - online services such as Facebook, Myspace, etc. - into a paper-based form in physical space. All workshop participants contribute a profile page to the big Friends Book and make their own personal friends booklet in which to collect as many friends as possible. With their own hand-made profile photo stamp and a large amount of prefabricated web 2.0 service stamps, users trade among each other information about their favorite online services and web activities. In order to be recognized as Friends workshop participants, users can wear a button with their own profile photo or display their Web 2.0 preferences on Friends Tattoos.
Aram Bartholl 2008 |
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