23 Entryways Into My Mind: Portal 8

23 Entryways Into My Mind: Portal 8 HOME 23 Entryways Home 23 Entryways Into My Mind is a series of installations begun on September 7, 2000. Each installation offers others an opportunity to step out of their own minds and into mine. The series is, like many of the works comprising it, a project expected to last my lifetime. 23 Entryways Into My Mind is an exploration of how human beings understand identity, their own and others. In what ways we can define who a human being is. In this case The MVM will spend my life exploring ways in which others might be able to try and understand what might constitute my identity. Portal 1 Portal 2 Portal 3 Portal 4 Portal 5 Portal 6 Portal 7 Portal 8	Portal 8: Expansion began on September 7, 2008 The idea that our machines are becoming the reflectionss of our identity resurfaces here. Portal 8 is a Firefox add-on that tracks the web surfing habits of users. It caches every page they visit and uses parameters such as number of visits and time spent per page to craft explorable worlds out of the data on those pages - oceans made of email, clouds of viral videos, forests of sound, mountains of flickr'ed photos, streams of diggs, pastures of searches, blossoming fields of wikipedia entires may make up one world, for instance. I am currently in the beginning stages of delineating this work with collaborators Jonathan Grindstaff and Stelios Valavanis. Our goal is to create a stand-alone add-on we can make available for free; to host servers to house this data and the worlds it creates (providing a universe in which users can explore their own world and the worlds of others, and in which they can band together to create planetary systems and galaxies); to host events for community building of individual worlds by allowing participants to use workstations and laptops to collaboratively surf a world into existence at galleries, museums, cafes, home, or through online agreement; to create an installation in 2010 that provides a physical analogue for this universe. As we move deeper into cloud computing and virtual life, Portal 8's worlds will evolve, reflecting who we are more and more profoundly. Our choices of where we navigate online will be our method of world creation in life and in Portal 8. Ideally, the add-on will take advantage of the increasing sophistication (invasion) of community building sites like facebook and twitter to allow users to participate within planetary systems and galaxies of our virtual identi-verse, creating a game-like analogue for self-exploration and community. And let's not even get into the privacy and intellectual property issues this project will bring up!
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23 Entryways Into My Mind:
Portal 8
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23 Entryways Into My Mind is a series of installations begun on September 7, 2000. Each installation offers others an opportunity to step out of their own minds and into mine. The series is, like many of the works comprising it, a project expected to last my lifetime.
23 Entryways Into My Mind is an exploration of how human beings understand identity, their own and others. In what ways we can define who a human being is. In this case The MVM will spend my life exploring ways in which others might be able to try and understand what might constitute my identity.

Portal 1

Portal 2

Portal 3

Portal 4

Portal 5

Portal 6

Portal 7

Portal 8

Portal 8: Expansion began on September 7, 2008

The idea that our machines are becoming the reflectionss of our identity resurfaces here. Portal 8 is a Firefox add-on that tracks the web surfing habits of users. It caches every page they visit and uses parameters such as number of visits and time spent per page to craft explorable worlds out of the data on those pages - oceans made of email, clouds of viral videos, forests of sound, mountains of flickr'ed photos, streams of diggs, pastures of searches, blossoming fields of wikipedia entires may make up one world, for instance. I am currently in the beginning stages of delineating this work with collaborators Jonathan Grindstaff and Stelios Valavanis.

Our goal is to create a stand-alone add-on we can make available for free; to host servers to house this data and the worlds it creates (providing a universe in which users can explore their own world and the worlds of others, and in which they can band together to create planetary systems and galaxies); to host events for community building of individual worlds by allowing participants to use workstations and laptops to collaboratively surf a world into existence at galleries, museums, cafes, home, or through online agreement; to create an installation in 2010 that provides a physical analogue for this universe.

As we move deeper into cloud computing and virtual life, Portal 8's worlds will evolve, reflecting who we are more and more profoundly. Our choices of where we navigate online will be our method of world creation in life and in Portal 8. Ideally, the add-on will take advantage of the increasing sophistication (invasion) of community building sites like facebook and twitter to allow users to participate within planetary systems and galaxies of our virtual identi-verse, creating a game-like analogue for self-exploration and community.

And let's not even get into the privacy and intellectual property issues this project will bring up!

All materials generated by The Museum of Viral Memory are free for the butchering under a creative commons license. Some items generated by others which we feature here are copyright protected. This is clearly stated when it is the case.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.