After looking through Kingdom of Piracy for project ideas, I thought about designing an extension to the BURN idea to make it even more relevant to todays use of technology. However after thinking about it.. there was no significant way of extending it in a way that hasn't already been done with the use of legal and illegal software/methods. The Idea was to encorporate video to download and use for multimedia devices but the range of 'free; software that allows users to rip straight from youtube etc and convert to iPod/iTunes or similar made this a fairly weak idea.
I then did some research into an online exhibition from 1997-'98 called 'Desktop is' by Alexei Shulgin (http://www.easylife.org/desktop/) as provided by Joasia. Being online for twelve or so years old the webpage for this exhibition isn't exactly up to date with the majority of exhibit links innactive. However the idea of 'Desktop is'; A curatorial project/exhibition in which participants submit images of their computer's desktop which is intended to represent their own personalities.
From looking at the website and what remains of it, The idea is simply for participants to provide links to images of their desktops, which have been manipulated in order to provide information about that user via their desktop. The site is designed to replicate a typical Macintosh desktop using folder icons as links. There are actually only two pages to this web site the first linked 'desktop.is' takes the user to a page which features a variety of descriptions as to what Alexei Shulgin feels a users desktop represents. The second link named 'Desktops' takes the user to the list of links that participants have provided.
This project is no more than an online gallery allowing anyone to view users desktops in a static state which would lead to the interpretation of the personalities and interests of these particpants.
This caused me to think about a more up to date method of recreated/expanding this idea further. The idea of allowing anyone to view something that is fairly personal, in this case a desktop image, made me link it with a more recent technology that is social networking. What if this idea could be reproduced and linked with a technology that too allows users to freely view in some cases, information and media added by that particular user. In addition to the obvious viewing of information, there is the personal information that social networking sites will take and use without the users knowledge for marketing purposes etc.
With these ideas in mind I plan to create a cutorial project which is an expansion of Shulgin's Desktop is, but is incorporated within a social network.....
I then did some research into an online exhibition from 1997-'98 called 'Desktop is' by Alexei Shulgin (http://www.easylife.org/desktop/) as provided by Joasia. Being online for twelve or so years old the webpage for this exhibition isn't exactly up to date with the majority of exhibit links innactive. However the idea of 'Desktop is'; A curatorial project/exhibition in which participants submit images of their computer's desktop which is intended to represent their own personalities.
From looking at the website and what remains of it, The idea is simply for participants to provide links to images of their desktops, which have been manipulated in order to provide information about that user via their desktop. The site is designed to replicate a typical Macintosh desktop using folder icons as links. There are actually only two pages to this web site the first linked 'desktop.is' takes the user to a page which features a variety of descriptions as to what Alexei Shulgin feels a users desktop represents. The second link named 'Desktops' takes the user to the list of links that participants have provided.
This project is no more than an online gallery allowing anyone to view users desktops in a static state which would lead to the interpretation of the personalities and interests of these particpants.
This caused me to think about a more up to date method of recreated/expanding this idea further. The idea of allowing anyone to view something that is fairly personal, in this case a desktop image, made me link it with a more recent technology that is social networking. What if this idea could be reproduced and linked with a technology that too allows users to freely view in some cases, information and media added by that particular user. In addition to the obvious viewing of information, there is the personal information that social networking sites will take and use without the users knowledge for marketing purposes etc.
With these ideas in mind I plan to create a cutorial project which is an expansion of Shulgin's Desktop is, but is incorporated within a social network.....
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