How do we bring locality back into our networks? is the prompt this project offers a non realistic answer to. While most social networking technologies work towards maximizing screen time, An Algorithm That Gives You 4 Friends does the opposite: it sends you back to the real world, and asks you to sit in silence with a group of peers.

The project is designed as a series of 8 prompts and meant to be experienced by 5 people with 5 computers, sitting in the same room. It creates a user unfriendly back and forth between digital and physical interactions, with the goal of creating a community where there was not one before.

Visit here:
dat://f019ad42fca1f045579dbf708f9c27f685ae75bb05ba55f35d9e0f1ee342a671/
or https://an-algorithm-for-4-friends.hashbase.io/

Developed during the TXT-2018 workshop at A-B-Z in Toronto. Created on top of the dat:// protocol and the Beaker browser.