GitHub - davidjonas/www_hack: www_hack is a creative intervention onto specific web sites. A script installed on the host site allows all visitors to a single page to observe each others mouse movements at any one time. On a technical level, the work is based on a javascript that contacts a server where all the individual mouse positions are stored, displaying all the cursors in ‘real-time’. Users experience the virtual presence of others, as controlled by a server. Web platforms are being promoted as a privileged arena for emerging communities and open collaborations. ‘www_hack’, on the other hand, aims at exposing the internal architecture of the web as well as the protocols that reflect a server client hegemony in which users are separated from information and from each other. The project demonstrates that the server-client relationship is not open as such, nor free from power structures. Indeed, all clients are subject to the ‘dictatorship’ of a server which is intrinsic to web architecture. Powered by JSBroadcast ( http://github.com/davidjonas/JSBroadcast )

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www_hack is a creative intervention onto specific web sites. A script installed on the host site allows all visitors to a single page to observe each others mouse movements at any one time. 
On a technical level, the work is based on a javascript that contacts a server where all the individual mouse positions are stored, displaying all the cursors in ‘real-time’. 
Users experience the virtual presence of others, as controlled by a server. 

Web platforms are being promoted as a privileged arena for emerging communities and open collaborations. 
‘www_hack’, on the other hand, aims at exposing the internal architecture of the web as well as the protocols that reflect a server client hegemony in which users are separated from information and from each other. 
The project demonstrates that the server-client relationship is not open as such, nor free from power structures. 
Indeed, all clients are subject to the ‘dictatorship’ of a server which is intrinsic to web architecture. 

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