The Artist-in-Research Program Presents:
Matthew Shanley : GiftDocs
What: Matthew Shanley's Intro and Artist Talk
When: Thursday, October 25th @ 7:30
Where: @ The Berwick, 14 Palmer St. Dudley Sq. Roxbury
GiftDocs is an internet-based project cataloging and displaying freely available documents found across the web. This information will be viewable by anyone and created and edited by a group of administrator-librarians. There is an interactive, force directed graph displaying a web of these documents connected to each other based on common attributes. The display highlights the networked structure of the document ecosystem. GiftDocs is a vehicle to explore ideas about gift economies. In a culture where we are constantly told about newfound value of information, here is a parallel plane on which information is being distributed with no financial compensation.