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FOMO |
Author |
Space Caviar (Team: Joseph Grima, Tamar Shafrir, Simone C. Niquille, Tom Keeley, Vinay Mehta). Fabrication by Marcello Comoglio and Alessandro Mason. |
Date |
2014 |
Description |
FOMO is a print magazine generated with a custom made software which gathers social media interactions based on metadata filters by a specific hashtag and/or location. The collected data is arranged in a print-ready PDF according to a predefined design template, then printed, bound and distributed on the spot by the FOMObile, a collapsible mobile publishing platform. Inspired by Bruce Sterling’s statement that “events are the new magazines”, FOMO is an attempt to produce a physical record of the fleeting bodies of physical interactions and electronic debris generated by event culture, while playing on the lurking “fear of missing out” (an inevitable byproduct of the experience economy). The platform filters and makes accessible as a physical record the electronic dust-cloud that surrounds events. |
 FOMObile at Salone del Mobile, Milan, 2014.  FOMObile at Salone del Mobile, Milan, 2014. 
 FOMO software’s interface.  FOMObile at the Swiss Pavilion Marathon, 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014. 
Cover and page from FOMO geolocated in Fort Meade (NSA headquarters). |
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Statement |
The magazine’s production is a performative process that investigates the aesthetic and conceptual implications of the encounter between a centuries-old tradition of experimental publishing, the rising influence of machine intelligence in media, and the craving for instant gratification produced by real-time technologies. Variables such as background noise, number of people present, and intensity of social media activity inform the appearance of the final output, creating both moments of density and voids of activity. In Dadaist spirit, it is not so much an experiment in precision documentation as in finding alternative methods of representation and documentation of events. |
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Download |
FOMO, Studio Folder issue, Milan, 9/04/14 (18.3mb); FOMO871, Design Miami Basel issue, 22/06/14 (721kb); FOMO 2036, geolocated in Fort Meade, US, 26/06/14 (342kb). |
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Event |
#OnTheFlyMilan, Salone del Mobile 2014 in Milan, Italy. 9 - 11 April 2014. URL: twitter.com/search?q=%23ontheflymilan&src=hash |
Event |
Swiss Pavilion Marathon, 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. 5 - 6 June 2014. URL: www.spacecaviar.net/projects/fomo |
Event |
Join Photographic Experts Group, Satellite Exhibition at Design Miami Basel in Basel, Switzerland. 16 - 22 June 2014. URL: www.designmiami.com/designlog/basel-shows/basel-show-information/fomobile-rolls-town |
Related |
“This Robot Journalist Reports Live by Listening to Everything” by Victoria Turk, Vice Motherboard, April 14, 2014. |
Keywords |
algorithm, appropriation, authorship, collection, community, graphic design, preservation, privacy, public space |
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