Who doesn’t want to be famous?

Data is not just a part of today’s commons, it’s becoming its currency: literally, figuratively, socially. Good things shall come to those who share, like, post, poke, trend, pin, tweet…

iLikeMe (on facebook) is a self-promoting app and intervention platform for bumping someone’s social-networking status.

It uses a real-time face tracking library to generate exaggeratedly colored images in the style of Andy Warhol’s silkscreens, that are then posted to facebook for 15 minutes straight, along with predictions about the future based on popular google searches.

A short video showing the real-time Warhol effect:

This project is part of an ongoing series of web applications meant to explore different aspects of our technology-mediated interactions.