In my own personal Dantean hellscape there are a couple of circles I’d especially prefer to avoid winding up in. One involves having to eat absolutely every single thing on the planet other than people and animals—of which there are none in this particular Hell, adding to the hellishness. Think about that. Think about how long it would take to eat one car, then another car, then all the cars, airplanes, mountains…you get the idea. It stinks.Another Hell that stands out as undesirable to be damned to in my opinion is an incredibly bureaucratic and bleak reality. Like something out of Gilliam’s Brazil. Someplace that feels beige and is next to comically oppressive, like the DMV. Someplace where I need to use a Facebook ID card to get into places, where my online cred directly correlates to my real life cred, subsequently rendering both types of cred no longer mutually exclusive.OK, it’s not as bad as having to eat the Chrysler Building but it is getting closer to becoming a reality, which means I’m either dead and in Hell or one of my less-than-desirable ways of spending eternal damnation is cleverly marketable in the eyes of a German artist.I think you see where this is going.German artist and F.A.T. Lab member Tobias Leingruber recently entertained the distinct possibility of having to carry social identity cards by creating mock Facebook IDs for people who attended an art opening he held last Friday in Berlin.Our sister blog, The Creators Project had a chat with Leingruber about the project as well as his own perspective on just how far a social media identification system like this could go. Says Leingruber:I just hope it'll never happen all the way. That's why I'm doing this project! The idea of a social network passport is a bit like George Orwells' 1984 in that sense.Chilling. Read the whole interview over at The Creators Project blog.
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