For this assignment, you will create a self portrait of who you are with no 'selfie' images of yourself; rather, this self portrait will be made up of metadata, ip addresses, links, and/or other kinds of codes that paint a picture of who you are on the internet.... Please 'hand code' using your new html and css skills (js, php, etc. optional). No Dreamweaver or packages.
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1) Consider the data from the metadata and surfing the net exercises we have done. How could you use this as material to 'paint' a picture of who you are on the internet? Is it accurate, or skewed?
2) Consider the artists and projects we've reviewed in class, such as Keith Obadike, Younga Hae Chang, Michael Mandiberg, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Immersion, and others (see below). How do these artists succeed or fail in constructing an identity, or a 'profile,' and for whom? Can you play with the dynamics of accuracy or inaccuracy in using codes and data for your dataportrait?
3) Consider digital aesthetics -- how are the senses engaged in your piece? Is it interactive? Does the visitor feel in control or overwhelmed? Is this achieved through an orderly presentation, moving or changing parts, or something more chaotic?
4) Technically, please employ an external stylesheet and be fluidly employing classes or ids.
5) Please post your A2 URL to the #assignments channel of Slack.
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You will be graded on
1) perceptual: exploration of digital +/or networked aesthetics, and the ability to have your aesthetics reflect your concepts
2) conceptual work: how are you creatively approaching problems tied to data and digital +/or networked identity?
3) technical: ability to implement technical coding lessons into project, and make code work for you
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RELATED PROJECTS
Keith Obadike
Young Hae Chang
Michael Mandiberg (Shop Mandiberg)
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Immersion
Mezangelle
Jonas Lund
Cory Archangel, Data Diaries
Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, How Do You See the Disappeared? A Warm Database
Walid Raad, Atlas Group
Andreas Muller-Pohle, Blind Genes
Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Roberta Breitmore
Warren Sack, Conversation Map
Alex Galloway et al, Starry Starry Night
Consider also, the legacy of Henrietta Lacks (Guardian article)
Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them