Presented at Pixxelpoint - 9th International New Media Art Festival
5-12.12.2008
Nova Gorica, Slovenja

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Confession 2.0 aims at ironically reflecting upon the role of digital media in the confession of one's sins and the creation of new kinds of confessionals ad spaces of penance in the web sphere. What once was secret, is now public domain. What one was a shame to keep among believer, priest and God, now is detailed bunch of digital code equipped with photos and videos that testify what one has done. Facebook is a growing repository for sinners.
Confession 2.0 is a physical/virtual environment in which the believer/user can experiment again the intimacy of catholic confession, and an experiment of collaborative penance. The believer can enter a real confessional: instead of a priest, on the other side of the wall, he/she will find a computer screen. The faithful can choose the kind of sin committed, type his/her sin in a text form, an receive penitence and eventual absolution.
In real time, the sins entered by the users are sent to the Internet, sniffed by another computer and graphically represented and mapped on a big display outside the confessional, shaping know faces and images that deal with the concept of "sin" and "religion" user the cluster of the text inserted. This visualization is made with Processing. At the same time, the sins are published in real time on a delegated Twitter space ( twitter.com/confession2 ) and are spread in the Internet.
Confession 2.0 puts together publicity and intimacy, absolution and dissemination. With 2.0 technologies everyone can be a "famous"sinner!