Deli Near Info

Harm van den Dorpel’s project »Deli Near Info« is a social media website, established in 2014, that anyone with a Twitter account can join. It exemplifies a non-linear, intuitive »surf,« or way of adding, finding, and connecting user-generated content – particularly images, gifs, and text. External webpages, including links to video and sound, can also be embedded.

»Deli Near Info« is derived from »de-linear,« which represents an alternative approach to the ubiquitous timeline-based, scrolling social media sites that place newer content at the top. Van den Dorpel believes this kind of linear organization of content is »only about the now,« and does not allow the user to cultivate memory by making associations over time. Rather than hashtags or other metadata grouping the content, in »Deli Near Info« the pages are formed based on subjective choices made by multiple contributors. Additionally, unlike the majority of social media platforms, »Deli Near Info« offers no template for the content, which can be moved, manipulated in size or transparency, and animated with functions such as »Haunting« or »Dripping.«

Excerpt from: Ché Zara Blomfield, »Dissociative Social Media,« available online.
The documentation of the project is available online.