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Tag Archives: detournement

Del.icio.us/ winning information

Jodi
Netherlands - 2008
What happens when the familiar associations between context and structure break down? When what you are used to recognise is not there anymore, and numbers, symbols and spaces have taken now over? del.icio.us – winning information rips off the categorizations, the forms and the semiology of today’s web. Navigation becomes difficult and chaotic [...]

Folded in

Personal Cinema & the Erasers
Greece – 2008
Folded in is a project about the notion of borders and their representation in the social networks of the web 2.0. User-generated systems like the Youtube show that users tend to reproduce in the web the same prejudices, superstitions and nationalistic beliefs of the real world and shape similar [...]

Subvertr

Les Liens Invisibles
Italy - 2007
Subvertr is a parody of the popular social network for images, flickr.
“Bored by mainstream media? Tired of boring social tags?Subvertize! Don’t let anyone else put the hands on your imaginary. Just subvertize and manage it by yourself: collect, detourn, alter and share it with other people like you! Share Share Share [...]