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| ==Descrition== | | ==Descrition== |
| What ever happened to mad cows?
| | Minimum of 350 word descrition of the project |
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| At the beginning of 2009, a H1N1 strain from the swine influenza virus started spreading throughout the world,<br />
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| and together with it, panic of infection rose. The virus itself hadn’t shown dramatically greater numbers of victims<br />
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| in comparison to the regular seasonal flue, to which it also resembles in symptoms,<br />
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| making it difficult to distinguish them both, causing further uncertainty and panic among people.<br />
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| “Of course it’s wonderful how quickly information can be communicated these days. <br />
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| The problem lies in evaluating that information. The media or individuals publishing on the Internet <br />
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| can make mistakes, panic themselves, and infect other people. And this spreads much more quickly than the swine flu”<br />
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| The more it is well spread, present, mutating, and becoming THE virus (forming a strong structure-image)<br />
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| the more different reactions are born, mutating. What made this virus so dangerous and controversial?<br />
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| Whether out of fear of another plague, or remembrance of some deadly predecessors –the Spanish flu,<br />
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| the pandemic of 2009 became a media monster, memeticaly infecting with theories of conspiracy and irrational behaviour. <br />
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| As Wendy Chun argues, the paranoid mind has an answer for everything (Chun, 2006).<br />
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| But also the paranoid mind must have resources for consuming paranoia. <br />
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| In the vastness of blogospheres and social networks was a fertile ground <br />
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| for spreading the disease of the disease. In that case we are explicitly dealing with the reality of the virtual,<br />
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| where the virtual belief becomes the true reality, influencing our experience of the everyday.
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| The objects tagged (infected) in this project are objects shared among people in our everyday, tracing our tactical networks.
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| The infection has spread so far in Brussels and Rotterdam, with a tendency to grow.
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| [[User:Darija/_MG_3758.jpg | newspaper]]<br />
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| [[User:Darija Medic/project/_MG_3890m.3.jpg | toilet towel]]<br />
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| [[User:Darija Medic/project/_MG_3777n.jpg | bookstore]]<br />
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| [[User:Darija Medic/project/_MG_3774r.jpg | bookstore2]]<br />
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| [[User:Darija Medic/project/_MG_3812d.jpg | toilet]]<br />
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| [[User:Darija Medic/project/DSC04207.2.JPG | traffic light]]<br />
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| [[User:Darija Medic/project/_MG_3784dd.jpg | restaurant]]<br />
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| [[User:Darija Medic/project/_MG_3876gg.jpg | cafe]]<br />
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| [[User:Darija Medic/project/_MG_3909nnn.jpg | cafe2]]
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| == Attachments ==
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| *[[File:User_Darija_Medic_project__MG_3890m.3.jpg]]
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| *[[File:User_Darija_Medic_project__MG_3777n.jpg]]
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| *[[File:User_Darija_Medic_project__MG_3774r.jpg]]
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| *[[File:User_Darija_Medic_project__MG_3812d.jpg]]
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| *[[File:User_Darija_Medic_project_DSC04207.2.JPG]]
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| *[[File:User_Darija_Medic_project__MG_3784dd.jpg]]
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| *[[File:User_Darija_Medic_project__MG_3876gg.jpg]]
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| *[[File:User_Darija_Medic_project__MG_3909nnn.jpg]]
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| ==Documentation== | | ==Documentation== |
| A minimum of 2 high resolution images and a two minute video demo of the project. | | A minimum of 2 high resolution images and a two minute video demo of the project. |
