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Posts Tagged: Demetricator

Benjamin Grosser – Facebook Demetricator and the Easing of Prescribed Sociality

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, March 21, 2013

During the last session of Unlike Us #3 on the 22th of March, the focus turned to the relevant role of art in providing a critical response to the socio-political implications of social media monopolies and their centralized software. In this context, new media artist Benjamin Grosser introduced the Demetricator: a free web browser extension [...]

Ben Grosser is an artist, composer, and programmer. His recent...

Don’t Give Me the Numbers – Matthew Fuller interviews Ben Grosser about Facebook Demetricator

By Larissa Hildebrandt, October 25, 2012

Ben Grosser is an artist, composer, and programmer. His recent piece of software is the Facebook Demetricator, a tool for adapting the social network’s interface so that the numerical data it foregrounds is removed. No longer is the focus on how many friends one has or how many comments they’ve gotten, but on who those friends [...]

Design and development by Roberto Picerno & Silvio Lorusso.