[NetBehaviour] Surface Web Times

[marc garrett]

Surface Web Times

By Aymeric Mansoux -

Within a computer network such as the Internet, communication between 
individuals are heavily mediated by software. Whether if this one is run 
locally or as a remote service, this mediation works by constantly 
generating new, or manipulating existing data. Our ability to properly 
respond to this discrete flow of digital information is therefore 
modulated by two factors: the amount of data to consume, and the time 
allocated for this consumption and interpretation.

The amount of data that is available today is gigantic. This volume and 
its quasi physical properties is at the centre of commercial 
opportunities in the form of data markets, big data analysis, data 
brokerage, data mining, but it is also a fundamental component in 
citizenship driven initiatives such as the open data movement.

"What about network friendly art you may wonder? In order to survive in 
this environment, art must find extreme strategies that will maintain 
its visibility when piped in between another tragic event, a couple of 
leaks and media glitch from a celebrity. For a start, it is perfectly 
possible for artists to follow the marketing wet dream of appropriating 
and cracking the recipe of viral creations. In this situation, the work 
aims at reaching the status of meme in order to maximise its visibility 
within social networks."

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