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
actual explanation
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.
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Then, all of a sudden, I realized: I was much more fascinated by the motive that may drive a hyperactive teenage girl to talk for six minutes about her new fuzzy slippers than any other topic I had explored.
After that, it was just a matter of time before I stumbled into my first confessional videos
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description of what I'm actually trying to do as a graduation project now
what is it about
My graduation project revolves around confessional youtube videos.
(why confessions?)
A video is projected in a room, a collage/mashup of videos directly streaming from YouTube.
why streaming from youtube exactly?
I have been examining other projects that make use of youtube videblogs, but I have been very much disappointed to understand that none of
how does it work
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 visitors enter the installation space, 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, the level of noise recorded.