Hi everyone
I just started a new project for TAGallery in Vienna, called I tag
you tag me: a folksonomy of Internet Art (http://del.icio.us/
I_tag_you_tag_me), an ongoing colaboratively curated show/social
experiment on folksonomy creation and I would like to invite you to
be part of it. Here is a brief statement about the project:
I tag you tag me: a folksonomy of Internet art
Social bookmarking allows for users to easily store lists of
resources (websites, for instance) and have them available to the
public, allowing people with the same interests (or not) to share and
have easy acess to relevant information on a specific subject. But
the most important feature of social bookmarking lies in the
categorization of these resources by the users themselves. Tagging is
the word that comes to mind. Tagging consists basicly in the
possibility these social bookmarking services have of allowing the
users not only to bookmark something, but to informally assign tags
(relevant keywords) to it, thus creating meta-data about the tagged
resources in a collective way, rather than individually, something
that can be seen as a second layer of meaning, but determined by the
users rather than the original producer of the content. This is what
is called folksonomy, a user-generated taxonomy used to retrieve and
categorize web content.
The departure idea for this project is thinking of tagging as
curating. If tagging creates meta-data about pre-existing content, it
can be seen as the creation of a discourse about it. And if that
content happens to be an online artwork, tagging both allows for a
subjective juxtaposition of art works and the elaboration of a
critical discourse about it. Curating then. But this isn’t new. This
is regular curating done in a schematic way, using a different tool
to get the job done. But since tagging is a social activity in its
essence, giving birth to folksonomies, it allows for social curating,
with social selection of works and social production of discourse
about them. This is what this project intends to be. Rather than
traditionally curating a show through tagging the projects with the
name of the show, we will be asking people to tag some of their
favourite Internet art pieces with a few defined tags and some that
they can choose freely. The idea is that this device will then create
a folksonomic net art exhibition done collectively by a group of
people. It can be seen as a social experiment, aiming at finding out
what will that second layer of meaning be like, or if it will work at
all. A challenge then. I tag you tag me, or a random folksonomy of
Internet art. Let the tagging begin.
I would like to ask you to add content to the show. We're using a
del.icio.us account, so log on to http://del.icio.us/ . the username
is I_tag_you_tag_me and the password is ole166. And then tag as many
net art pieces as you like, assigning them with tags you find useful
or relevant in any way. I have already tagged a few works. You can
use the same tagging system I did, or instead, you can use something
different, meaningful to you. The choice is really up to you. You can
add content or organize it as you consider best.
If a work you want to tag is already tagged, assign it with other
tags so it reflects what you wanted in the first place.
Hope you have fun helping to create this ever evolving, ever
changing, unfinished, unfinishable project.
Best,
Luis
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