User:Zigbe/Thematic Project 01

"iloveyou under interwebs"

iUi is an automated drawing tool //machine// based on personal data capturing and information crossing. It exist under the cyber space //under-un-ground// as a server less virus-like-application. As the virus-like application is installed in one computer's it captures all the data transferred/consumed by the user in order to make an animated organism by drawing simple lines showing the connections between the kidnapped data.

For example, an email is send to John Cage. As the software captures the name, it access all emails in that computer looking for connections with the name. It also makes use of the browser to track the data from all private sites from the cache, bookmark and history in order to find more connections with this name. The iUi connects to flickr account, Facebook, Gmail, hotmail or another possible social network. Using their own API to cross information in order to define an identity connected to the name by crossing information.

As information is found it connects the different kinds of data and people by colorful lines which are defined by importance of the data, the amount of compatibility between the two nodes, the social level of the person, and there it goes. Making different kinds of thickness, color and length to the strings which connects the points. As a new name is found, it is connected again repeating the actions for every contact available on one's computer. At the same time a copy of the virus-app is sent to the contacts found.

Despite the use of the internet to gather information, the iUi creates a copy of everything gathered in each computer it has been installed and creates a server less connection which is available under specific proxies for everyone to see, using every machine as a server. As it spreads the drawing gets bigger, and all the data is available for everyone with no limits. Once the information is captured it is rapidly spread around all computers making it impossible to be erased and or turned down, since every computer is a server and a client at the same.

The visual output is an organic web-network of information in constant movement and growth. It breaks everyone's privacy with no distiction of social importance as it also makes it available for everyone. Colors are attributed to the strokes defined by a set of rules which states social status, profession, addictions, hobbies, preferences.

A famous politician can make a whole gradient from all its peers to the point it hits a a connection with a doctor.