Social glitch

• What spaces are social? What are rules? How do we test them? What happens when we don’t follow them? How do we misinterpret each other? Failures, communication breakdowns and arguments, ambiguity?
• Breaching experiments, sociology, Garfinkel, Goffman, and Milgram
  • Harold Garfinkel
  • Breaching experiments
  • Nathan for you STDs
  • Nathan for you 2 grams
  • Oversharer
  • Erving Goffman - sociologist studied face-to-face interaction, related to performance
  • The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • Interaction Ritual
  • Stanley Milgram bus experiments
  • Matthias Gommel, Delayed
  • Sophia Brueckner, Crying to Dragon
  • Yes Men New York Times
  • Accessible Icon Project
• Glitch
  • Glitch is where a system breaks down and reveals something about itself in the process.
  • mojibake
    • extended ASCII
    • unicode
  • hex editing
    • realtime jpg glitch
    • “On Compression” by Cory Arcangel
    • jpg header remix
    • 0xed hex editor
    • hexfiend hex editor
  • datamosh
• Documentation
  • Recording/collecting “objective”
    • Jill Magid
    • Katsu
  • Transcribing/describing “subjective/interpreted”
    • Sophie Calle: install view and photos
  • Deconstructing
    • Mark Lombardi on wikipedia
    • Mark Lombardi article
    • technical flowcharts