User:Laura Macchini/graduationProjectDiary

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Project Diary

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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. {{#ev:youtube|oG9LHwWRz1I}} 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 {{#ev:youtube|qO21WmdsreI}}

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.

link to the videos I made and playlists on AA


Video on Vimeo