blog.plugimi.com ( Sascha Pohflepp )

I’m very happy to say that Social Collider, the collaboration between Karsten Schmidt and me for Google’s Chrome Experiments is part of Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A in London which opens to the public tomorrow.

Image taken from Karsten’s generative identity for the show

The exhibition explores three themes, Social Collider will be part of the Network section: “This networked world has provided the basis and tools for works of art and design that are multi-sited and global. Networks are saturated with the traces of our lives: messages we send, blog entries we post, borders we cross. Artists and designers are drawing on these traces of human presence, and using the ‘memory’ as the basis of new works. Translating our digital tracks into readable and understandable visualisations, they tease out the threads of our digitised activity.”

For more information about Social Collider please have a look at Karsten’s comprehensive documentation of the project.

Decode at the V&A’s Porter Gallery, 8 December 2009 – 11 April 2010