Facebook has entered the homes of young teens to elderly adults. The new ability to keep in touch with friends or people (you do not even know) is just a click away. In fact I feel that people are all too willing to share personal information. Going through other people’s Facebook pages I see a lot of posts about what a person is doing each second of the day to inappropriate photos. I think that people do not see that just by revealing this information they are allowing other people to judge their character (sometimes this can lead to wrong judgments). More importantly they could lead sex offenders or murderers to them. For me my Facebook is simply a way to keep in touch with friends and a way to sell artwork. However, following the concepts of Sophie Calle I could see combining art and life through my Facebook page. I could make viewers my “detective” by bringing them into my life, showing them what I want them to see, and see what they interpret.
Extending the idea of art and life through a person’s Facebook page I could play on the idea of too much information. I think it would be important to display a person’s pictures (blocking faces) as well as their posts. Then viewers would be given the opportunity to sketch out their idea of what this person looks like. I would hope that this work would show people how the information they share on Facebook would lead other people to draw wrong conclusions about them
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