Demetrie Tyler

Hypothetical Drawings About Our Children

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Judith Rich Harris, in her controversial 1995 book "The Nurture Assumption", makes a convincing argument that we are not socialized at home, but rather on the playground. "Peer Socialization" is the frightening idea that we become who we are, to a large extent, based on the social interactions we have with other children. So, what happens now that the playground is networked? Now that our children's peer communities are no longer defined entirely by which neighborhood they live in, but on which web sites they spend time on, how is this going to affect who they become?

This software produces large-format landscapes of our children's online communities using a set of generative drawing algorithms.

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