“The Love Machine” exhibits 4 behaviors of bots acting like revolutionary works of art: Infiltration, Critique, Reflexivity, Participation.
« […] Taiwanese use the function ‘like’ on Facebook much more frequently compared to UK Facebook users. »
“I’ve made a bot that ‘likes’ everything on Facebook,” said Julien Deswaef, an artist and coder that I had just met in early 2012 during a workshop hosted by Marius Watz at iMal in Brussels. Marius was the big name at this event, however it was the lesser-known artists that really blew my mind that week, and Julien was one of them.
Erik H Zepka: « the definition of sacrilege is when Juego Requiem doesn't like any of his own comments »
« If you do feel the need to sign up [on Facebook]. make sure your 1st friend is lovemachine »
« Let’s say you want to be friendly on Facebook.
Really friendly.
Happily, there is a bot for you, one designed to enable a degree of positivity-spreading that almost certainly transcends your puny human ability to be upbeat. »