This work is a durational event in making connections between people based on their visit to an exhibition 'site' (physical or online), their participation in and assumed interest in art. The event is performed through email and documented online. Visitors are requested to send an email to an address that is only provided at the exhibition, stating their name in the subject and a few lines about themselves and their interest in art in the body. Their information becomes the works content however it is their participation, their action, that becomes its subject matter. By participating visitors become participants in the works creation and as an event it comes into being.

Each participant is matched randomly with another. They are encouraged to connect with their match by emailing them. Only participants names, introductory texts and match are displayed online. Email addresses are only shared by email with others who have participated. In this way the work as event facilitates and is a temporary network of proximal, 'real' or 'virtual', activity and interest. The work lasts the duration of the exhibition and thereafter becomes inactive with the online component remaining as documentation of the created network.

This work uses the superb Vis.js visualization library.

To participate in this work you must visit the exhibition at the Kreuzberg Pavillon, Naunynstrasse 53, 10999 Berlin or this website between 8pm (CET) on the 15/10/2016 and 1am (CET) on the 16/10/2016. At ether of these locations and between these times, you can email the work as follows:

1. Send an email to the email address peoplenetwork@asquare.org. Use your name (full or first) as the emails subject and write a few lines introducing yourself and your interest in art in the emails body.
2. You will receive a confirmation email and once matched with another user an email providing you with a means to contact them.

NOTE: email addresses are stored for this work in encrypted format and are not used or forwarded for any other purpose. Participants only receive three emails from the network at most.

The network of participants can be viewed on this webpage. To explore the work and use the with your mouse, keyboard or touchscreen device:

Navigate or move

Click or touch anywhere, hold and drag or use the arrow buttons in the interface.

Zoom in/out

Use a mouse scroll wheel, page up (⇞/PgUp) and down (⇟/PgDn) keys on a keyboard or the + and - buttons in the interface.

Node/link details

Hover for preview information. Click or touch for full information.

Move nodes

Click or touch a node, hold and drag.

Reset

Click or touch the reset button in the interface.