User:Laura Macchini/graduationProjectDiary
Project Diary
explanation of how my project used to be about self affirmation of identity and ended up being about confessions
Over the summer, I started becoming more and more fascinated with the concept of constant editing and control over an Online Identity, I had read several books about it, and it seemed a good topic to explore for my graduation project. I started looking at how people behave online, at the pictures they choose to represent them, at the patterns recognizable in people's behaviour online. Until I saw this video. [1]
description of what I'm actually trying to do as a graduation project now
My graduation project revolves around confessional youtube videos.
A video is projected in a room, a collage/mashup of videos directly streaming from YouTube.
In the first hypothesis of scenario: while there is no one watching, the video shows an idle scene, pieces of video in which a person stares at the camera, waiting for an audience; as soon as people appear in front of the installation, the video gradually changes into scenes in which the vlogger is revealing more and more intimate details about their life; the level of intimacy and the content of the confessions/revelations is related to factors like the number of people present and the distance between the spectator/s and the projection.