Recent Activity

March 28th, 2011

Nancy has decided that the placement of the text will be spinning right-side up and the text will be larger than originally displayed. Each box that will be rolling the paper will be representative of a different person. For everyone, the timeline is from when they started to post Facebook status, to when it was printed. Although some are dead or have stopped using Facebook. The trouble is how information to give the people at the gallery.

Critique:

Timothy Druckrey: One of the shows up needed a bit more information. Minimal amount of information is needed and its a fine line to allow the audience to understand.

Nancy Daly: I was thinking about using the title “Recent Activity” because that is how this information is referenced to Facebook.

Travis Masingale: You should be careful about the tenses used in “Recent Activities”, it would make the piece a past tense as well.

Timothy Druckrey: “On some Recent Activites” that would be very generalized and could constitute an overarching title; or “Status Updates”.

Arisha Trifonova: Facebook also prompts questions for the users: “What is on your mind?” for example.

Erin Zerbe: The way Facebook catalogues all that activity, it might take a moment for someone to realize it is from Facebook.

Kim Llerena: There should somehow be an emphasis on the people who have stopped using Facebook. Maybe “In memoriam” title for their boxes?

Travis Masingale: But then conceptually the piece would stop growing from there. It would weigh it with another contradiction.

Nancy Daly: I have them arranged in a non-linear fashion to not have them evoke a linearity, but to be more a part of a “machine”.

Timothy Druckrey: I would recommend having all these individually highlighted by spotlights.