Ars Electronica Festival · 2004
The Contagious Media Project
by Jonah Peretti, Chelsea Peretti, Michael Frumin
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2004
In 2004, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “The Contagious Media Project” by Jonah Peretti, Chelsea Peretti and Michael Frumin (Net Based Art) with a Honorary Mention.
Global capitalism has produced hundreds of millions of bored office workers who sit in front of computers forwarding emails and surfing the web, inadvertently creating the “Bored at Work Network” (BWN). The BWN has become the largest alternative to the corporate media.
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