Materials:
1. large, bare white, all white room with 4 walls.
2. 8 top friends
3. blocks for interface/push-buttons
4. or just a white box
How would it be interactive?
1. if you touch/tap a friend, they will
answer any question you ask, sing you
a profile song, comment on you, share their
interests in music, books, movies, educational background,
etc.. If they like you, they will ask to be your friend,
2. an attempt to tangibilize the space.
3. you can actually walk around, inside the page.
4. experience it as an actual body/living space--though not a space to live in but physically interact in.
5. encounter people in the flesh and decide if they could be a potential friend.
But why can't we do this anywhere else, like in a coffee shop?
1. Because certain public places may come equipped with interpersonal expectations.
Persons are already expected to have eye-contact, bump into each other, hide behind a book,
etc. Also, their "myspace-selves" are hidden behind their clothes, locked away within their bodies.
An open white space, a typical gallery space, effects personal/intimate approach to a living/breathing person,
creating a futhered distancing through inherent sterility invoked by the whiteness or breaking through that and
increasing intimate/friendly engagement. Anyway, it raises questions about "Top 8" in the way friendships are 'measured'
or when you see someone else's Top 8 and wonder what that person is really like--> if "really" is in itself solipsistic.
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