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Public Spaces on the Internet

Public Spaces on the Internet

PROJECT BY Karim Hussein, Sarah Mühlbacher,
Katharina Biser, Beate Gatschelhofer

At first, to find a point to start, and because this topic is quite a big one, we brainstormed and talked about our personal experiences and views of the net. We also searched for a way to draw and write online together at the same time.
After we found Aggie.io, we started drawing and scribbling the things that are needed to actually access the internet and then spread out to follow the paths that interested us the most afterwards. We worked alone for some time and then met again to talk about our findings. It was interesting to see how we had all found very different things and interests, even though we started from roughly the same place. We combined the things we wrote and drew and finished with talking about how we wanted to present our work.
To summarize, the internet is a place where one gets lost easily, but the things you can find on your ways range from interesting to curious to outright strange and weird. It is a place to create and to get pranked, to find illusions and truths in. The internet is open for many, but still not for everyone and there are many hidden or unnoticed things that make seemingly public sites actually not public at all, but open to a very specific sort of audience only. The question of public spaces on the internet is, and probably will be, a very important one.