The idea of a world without internet has become almost unimaginable. We use online communities like Flickr, Facebook and Twitter to forge virtual realities which are subject to a perpetual process of reinvention and redefinition. Parallel to the real world of real individuals, an artificial world has emerged whose heart beats in bits and bytes.   ~Identität - The »Gestalt« of Digital Identity aims to make this disparity visible and show that digital worlds can be depicted in three-dimensional form. Web-crawler programs are used that automatically search the web and analyse particular pages. The accumulated information crawled form Amazon (shopping behaviour) Last.FM (listening habits) Delicious (interests) Twitter (communication behavior) is stored in a database. The interpretation of these personal details gives each identity its unique form, fixed in a generated sculpture.
Project Page. View the process on Flickr.