Trace Encounters

September 8th, 2004

Trace Encounters - “TraceEncounters is a social network tracking and visualization project. It is being debuted (this very moment!) in Linz, Austria at this year’s Ars Electronica festival. This temporary site has a minimum of information at this point, but there’s more available the final pre-festival writeup.”

“The project distributes a set of small stickpins, each of which uses limited-rage infrared data exchange to remember every other pin that it encounters. When pin wearers come to a central location to view the accreting network, they see a thousand circles on a plasma display panel, each representing a pin.”

Imaging wearing these pins at future library conferences? What a geeky way to network with colleagues. (link via Elastic Space)

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