Newly freed Facebook economy
Marisa Olson and the newly Facebook freed economy.
From Art Fag City:
Marisa Olson says…
…I’m definitely interested in the context of these being lifted.’ I posted a link to one on a friend’s Facebook page (a link because, unlike Myspace, FB doesn’t allow the embedding of images, which is one of the major losses that concerned me here), and his response was “Nice. 
A dollar for a JPEG? What are they smoking?? Though I kind of agree that it’s absurd, I don’t want to begrudge anyone the making of a buck. However, it’s worth pointing out that these images don’t circulate like JPGs or GIFs. I had to pull all of these in carefully-carved screen-grabs because Facebook doesn’t allow one to see and copy the code for these images. So they are not hotlinkable. Until now! 
And I love the idea of them having a life on MySpace, or other sites. Or even offline! Sharing and exchange are such a huge part of the way that I and the members of my personal “social network? (p.k.a. friends) experience the net. The economy for Facebook’s gifts didn’t reflect that, so I thought I’d facilitate it.
From her bio:
Marisa Olson’s work combines performance, video, sound, drawing, and installation. She usually touches on intersections of music, entertainment and the cultural history of technology, as they effect the voice, power, and persona. She’s also concerned with form-consciousness, media specificity, and smart stuff like that.
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