Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Dutch ensemble looks at death, Internet afterlife
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Dutch artists have earned a reputation for their forward-focused, techno-savvy outlook. Now, the Amsterdam-based performance ensemble PIPS:lab addresses the final frontier -- death and the afterlife -- in "Diespace," an offering of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Distinctively Dutch Festival. The multimedia performance masquerades as a promotional event for "Diespace," which Thijs de Wit, one of the six members of the tech-theater collective PIPS:lab, calls, "the first interactive community for the dead."
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I have often wondered about the fate of social networking accounts will be when their owners have died. It is rare for people to share their passwords with others, so will these accounts just be around forever? At some point will the dead population of Facebook (for example) outnumber the living? It is somewhat haunting to go onto the social networking pages of people who have died and know that you will always be able to view the pictures and updates that lead up to the day of their death. I wish I could have seen how this company addressed the subject of death and the internet in Diespace.
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