Josh Harris

Josh Harris is an American internet entrepreneur who has been called the "Warhol of the Web" during the 1990s for his social experiments.Business Week: The Warhol of Webcasting (January 26, 2000) Harris was the subject of the film, We Live in Public and his project "Quiet: We Live in Public" was used as a case study in the documentary film to explore "the numbing, overwhelming possibilities the internet offers".Cinematical: Sundance Interview (January 23, 2009)

• Harris created an artificial society in an underground bunker in New York City where approximately 100 artists moved in. The participants were under 24-hour surveillance and on camera, while they defecated, had sex and even shared a transparent communal shower.Sundance 2009: We Live in Public Overview

• Harris originally hired We Live in Public director Ondi Timoner to film the bunker project and she continued to follow him over the years. Timoner said in 2006 she realized Harris was on to something, "he said we'd be trapped in virtual boxes. It was like being shot with a lightening bolt. I had never had a clearer vision...Society and technology had to catch up to Josh's vision."CNET: A Day in the Life of a Sundance Filmmaker (January 21, 2009)

• "I now acknowledge that Pseudo Programs, Inc., a New York City based Internet television network founded in 1994 and sold from bankruptcy in 2000 was the linchpin of a long form piece of conceptual art. Pseudo burned over $25 million in private and institutional capital over a span of seven years. Pseudo was a fake company."—Josh Harris in a letter to The New York Times, reprinted in Boing BoingBoing Boing: Pseudo was a Fake Company (June 26, 2008)

• Wikipedia: Pseudo.com Entry

• Calacanis: Josh Harris We Live in Public

• Vimeo Video: We live in Public Trailer (Time 11:15)