Socially Engaged Art and Digital Practice week 9 - Project 2
How do physical presence function in a networked world? The physical presence is often overseen when thinking of the networked world we live in. Flavors, smells, physical touch are all part of our daily lives in a metropolitan city. Community engagement is what helps social networks thrive. During Covid some online communities flourished . Could this possibly be a result of a decade and a half of using social media platforms and smartphones? To me the networked world will relay on the human social experience of proximity. For example influencers rely on their following to consume things outside of the virtual interaction but in the networked world the followers get in close proximity through consumer products, or even places that they were referred to by influencers. The symbiotic relationship between physical and online experience will continue to feed off each other in the near future. Create something that addresses the materiality and/or Web3 reading (...

