A trio of email projects from
MIT Media Lab's
Sociable Media Group
Director: Judith Donath
exhibited at Artists
Space Gallery
38 Greene Street, 3rd Fl.
New York, NY 10013
(212) 226-3970
May 30 - July13, 2002
opening reception:
Thursday May 30 6-8pm
Social Network Fragments visualizes the structure of one's social network based on email correspondance. It creates an abstract yet revealing portrait not only of the individual, but also of the relationships between all of one's email contacts.
Animated emails are composed amidst the accumulated correspondance between gallery visitors and an anonymous writer. Mail Drops is based on the "portal" section of a larger piece called "alternative autobiographies", a portrait of the writer Richard Kostelanetz.
Post-History visualizes email inboxes, creating images that portray activity patterns, such as the daily volume of mail received and replied to. This project allows us to perceive our actions in the digital world "in order to grasp the scale, intensity and forms that our interactions take in this medium.