> iamclean.org [ 2007 ]
“You have zero privacy anyway, get over it.” - Scott McNealy
Iamclean.org is a critique of social networking sites and devices. This project takes aim at the idea of online "status", where you can let people know where you are at any moment in time very easily with the help of a computer and a little Internet. Since the Web 2.0's immense development, it seems like the emergence of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and MSN Live appears unstoppable, and people are defenitely tuning in to make the most of the interactive awesomeness. Brand new web development tools such as Action Script 3.0, Ajax, etc. make the interactive experience very stimulating for our brains, which explains the addictiveness of it all.
I have in my room this beautiful docking station (made of plaster, covered in paint with a shiny coating - made by Marc again) which actually looks a lot like an iPod docking station. It is very curvy, completely white and reminds me a little of an altar, giving the central object a god-like aura. On the other side is a slick little green status LED on the side. But instead of having my iPod or a cellphone charging there, it is actually holding my deodorant stick.
Every time I take the deodorant out of the docking station, the status LED goes on, and the installation knows I'm applying deodorant on. After a dozen seconds (usually) I'm finished, and put the deodorant back in its neat little slot. At the back of the installation, there is an RJ-45 (Ethernet, or Internet cable) jack, which lets me to plug it into any router or internet source. This allows the information to be sent out to my website instantly, where a live visualisation makes it available for the whole world to see which days I have put deodorant on, and for how many seconds (click on the "launch" button on the main page). You can also search for a certain date, and reorganize the days as you please.
the iamclean.org project has been published in Make magazine, issue 14 (2008)
visit the project website at http://www.iamclean.org
“You have zero privacy anyway, get over it.” - Scott McNealy
Iamclean.org is a critique of social networking sites and devices. This project takes aim at the idea of online "status", where you can let people know where you are at any moment in time very easily with the help of a computer and a little Internet. Since the Web 2.0's immense development, it seems like the emergence of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and MSN Live appears unstoppable, and people are defenitely tuning in to make the most of the interactive awesomeness. Brand new web development tools such as Action Script 3.0, Ajax, etc. make the interactive experience very stimulating for our brains, which explains the addictiveness of it all.
I have in my room this beautiful docking station (made of plaster, covered in paint with a shiny coating - made by Marc again) which actually looks a lot like an iPod docking station. It is very curvy, completely white and reminds me a little of an altar, giving the central object a god-like aura. On the other side is a slick little green status LED on the side. But instead of having my iPod or a cellphone charging there, it is actually holding my deodorant stick.
Every time I take the deodorant out of the docking station, the status LED goes on, and the installation knows I'm applying deodorant on. After a dozen seconds (usually) I'm finished, and put the deodorant back in its neat little slot. At the back of the installation, there is an RJ-45 (Ethernet, or Internet cable) jack, which lets me to plug it into any router or internet source. This allows the information to be sent out to my website instantly, where a live visualisation makes it available for the whole world to see which days I have put deodorant on, and for how many seconds (click on the "launch" button on the main page). You can also search for a certain date, and reorganize the days as you please.
the iamclean.org project has been published in Make magazine, issue 14 (2008)
visit the project website at http://www.iamclean.org