net.culture

communication gives rise to relationships. first one-to-one, then one-to-many, and, on the internet, many-to-many or everyone-to-everyone. identity is thus no longer defined individually but created through the relationship of the individual to the many. the internet makes possible alliances that were inconceivable before the rise of networked communities. it offers alternatives for people who want to free themselves of traditional classifications such as birth, nationality, and gender. at the same time, it raises the question of whether the transformations of net culture and the rise of social media represent a new foundation for real social networks or whether it portends their end. cornelia sollfrank and omsk social club design net activities that combine the artistic with the cultural and political and transmute them into new forms.