Missed Connections – in 2 Parts

January 24th, 2011

Missed Connections : That project will no longer be up against the wall, but on metal frames with a slight incline. Crisco will still be falling out of the boxes. Initially, the text was visible, Crisco would come out, and destroy what the text was originally. But now the texts will be the title themselves.

The other project : is about what happens after you die in the age of social media presence. The example of someone dying and needing to prove they died to then have their Facebook page turned into a memorial. She printed out all of Darrel’s Facebook statues on a roll of receipt paper. Form of communication that is empty but producing a presence. Physically construct a motor that would slowly roll-up all of the rolls of Facebook printed statues from the floor. “As time passes and they are accessed less, they become archives of the past. Your online presence gets smaller, but it all still exists in some form.” She is interested in how both pieces will interact together, worried about referencing ‘over-abundance.’

Critique:
Miranda Lichtenstein: “I don’t understand how the rolls connect to the metaphor, why does it have to be moving to roll-up?”

Nancy Daly: “There is a sense of connection and needs to be moved or in motion. The more you use it, the larger your physical presence becomes and thus the opposite is true.”

Craig Kalpakjian: “I would like to see a printer going.”

John McNeil: “You could have the way the motors are going (rolling out, rolling up) and have an inflection to how and what it means. The scale is definite and that needs to be taken into consideration.”

Jen Frost Smith: “The rolling of it has a cross-section that reminds me of the rings on a tree.”