Jul
21
2007
Pieces of art n°3 : Facebook Friend Wheel
Posted by: Fidji SIMO in Art, Innovation, Internet/Technology
Due to the great feedbacks I have about my “Pieces of art” serie I will continue it. Today a Facebook application displaying a virtual representation of your network. It is hard to say if this is a real form of art but it is a visual representation with a social project, which is why I put it in this section. You can see mine in large view here. To install this Facebook app click here.
If you know other artistic initiatives based on communities, I would be glad to read about them, and it would help me with my working paper 
Please leave me a link in the comments so that I can see your Friend wheel!
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[...] 3) Social networking: this field is probably the one where visualization tools are the most artistically involved, which may lead to think that these visual representations are just “gadgets”, like for example the Facebook Friends Wheel. But, apart from artistic projects, some of them are more useful, to visualize the structure of your network: how people are connected, what are the “clusters” in your network for example. Again, Touchgraph provides a great and customizable tool to do that (the image in this article is the visual representation of the core of my network), including the links between people thought pictures’ tags. [...]
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