During the New Cultural Networks Conference in Amsterdam (Friday 2nd of November, organized by Stifo@Sandberg), PIPS:lab presented diespace , the first internet community for people who have passed away!

PIPS:lab are a group of artists from Amsterdam based Sandberg Institute, and what they do is a mixture of new media art projects, theater, performance, (live!) music,…well, it’s really an experience and it really stirred up the audience of the conference!

There is a little movie from them that explains what they do on youtube (in Dutch though)!

Society is getting older and older…’grayification’ is happening all around us! So, what will happen when you die? How will people be able to contact you? Through diespace, of course! So create your own diespace account now! During their performance, the group worked with some pretty nice computer tricks and animations. So here’s what PIPS:lab did with the participants of the conference: Dressed up as grannies, playing live music and baking cookies, they created a diespace premium account for one randomly chosen person from the audience. This girl (see picture) had to sit in a special ‘machine’ that would “suck out her soul” and create a digital self that can answer all questions her family might want to ask her when she has passed away…so basically cheating death! Funny project, and always great to see PIPS:lab in action.

thanks to Twan Eikelboom for taking such lovely pictures!