The EGOphone is a sound robot that uses 'likes", "shares" and other social interactions from Facebook, VKontakte and Twitter to activate Osho`s glitch sermon.
Behind the concept of this object lays an ironic attempt to expose a trend of the recent years, when new media art works are being created mainly not for exhibiting, but rather for documentation and uploading to popular social networks implying other users' endorsement by "likes" and " shares" that strengthen the ego of an artist. The EGOfon aims to adjust to this trend and is specifically designed to feed on the audience response in social networks. In return to it, the EGOphone reads transformed fragments of sermons by Osho, a great teacher, to lower the degree of egoistic self-applause.
The EGOphone have pages on Facebook, Twitter and VKontakte. By adding it to friends or leaving a comment under photos or elsewhere on the wall or on its page, the audience throws fuel for the object's operation.