xlieux

Friends Joe Liao & Wendy Tai launched an art installation this past weekend that seeks to comment on the perception of space in art galleries, and on social interaction through technology – by presenting live video chats into a gallery space.

Users can log onto their website, xlieux.net, and use Skype to video chat with other users from around the world. Visitors to Experimenta, the gallery that is hosting the piece, can observe these conversations or break the rules of the gallery and choose to interact with the virtual users. Click more for the full write-up on the piece:

Communication

I spent a couple of hours responding to people who had contacted me recently. Want to know where I had to go to do that? Behold, Web 2.0:

*Plain Old Gmail
*Facebook Inbox
*Facebook Wall Posts
*Twitter
*Loopt
*Wordpress Comment Section
*Phone Text Messages

Yikes. If I don’t respond to you in a timely manner, it’s most likely because I’m attending to some other area of the clogged up intertubes. Isn’t there a way we can simplify this?

Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy

A funny video I was sent a few weeks ago. This partially sums up one of the inner dialogues I had after coming back from Tanzania…

Louis CK on Late Show with Conan O’Brien. “Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy”

The FB TOS v.2

So in the second installment of the Terms of Service debate, Facebook posted this statement tonight in response to the recent (mild) uproar among the people of the internets.

I think that it’s time to give serious thought to how our content should be used as we move more of our lives into the online world…this company, Facebook, offers us a valuable and free service – do we owe them something for this? How should our content be used and kept? If you have a thought on this, please contribute!

Facebook’s new user‘Bill of Rights’ group.

One Free Interaction

A really fascinating look at the way we humans love to repeat certain design interactions over and over, even if they don’t serve a function. I know I’m one of these users. Any of these sound familiar to you?

One Free Interaction (via V.Lourenco’s Simplify)