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Bryony Gillard

Bryony Gillard was a large influence through her interest of social sculpture and audience participation within her performances. These aspects can be seen throughout various of her pieces. Some examples are shown below:

Her piece Toast, invited the public to join in with the etiquette of a toast, this project helped to investigate into social gatherings and in this instance this was the opening of an exhibition. This projects was working with audience participation allowing resulting in collaboration through public toasts. She set out guidelines for the event, and made sure the public knew that they could toast anything. This collaborative event took place every 20 minutes from 1pm to 4pm.

Her piece Nail Art,2012, a collaboration with Creative Claws, invited the public of Cornwall through publicity to come and have free nail art inspired by 5 selected artists. Whilst having their nail painted in the style chosen by Amanda Carey, she would talk about the artists work creating conversations and the transferring of knowledge.

 

Facebookaholics Anonymous Publicity

Our publicity for our Facebookaholics Anonymous meeting came from discussion and appropriation of text taken from the Alcoholics Anonymous site. Doubled with our How much do you like your profile? logo. The a3 poster read:

If you seem to be having trouble with your social identity, or if your social networking has reached the point of where it worries you? You may be interested to know something about Facebookaholics Anonymous and the FA programme of recovery from Facebook addiction. After reading this brief outline you may decide that FA has nothing to offer you.

Does your online identity reflect the real you? Do you feel the need to filter your timeline constantly? Are you addicted to creating your online identity? How much time do you invest in social networking?

Determine for yourself whether or not social networking has truly become a problem for you and remember that you will always be most welcome to join the thousands of men and women in FA who have put their obsessive problems behind them.

Please come to FA through many different means… choose the path that best suits you, remember there are no fees or dues.

If you prefer e-mail as a means of contact then feel free to email us at fa.help.plymouth@mail.com. We have a team of volunteers who have experiences the problems that loosing control of your addiction can bring. They are only too pleased to be willing to help.

If you prefer, you can simply turn up at one of our meetings, we strongly suggest that when you arrive you let someone know that this is your first meeting, that way they will be able to provide you with the information that most people new to FA find useful.

Next Plymouth meeting:
Wednesday 27th November @ 2.30-3.30pm
Plymouth College of Art Cafe

Publicity Document for Facebookaholics Anonymous meeting, 2013

Publicity Document for Facebookaholics Anonymous meeting, 2013

Ontop of placing these around Studio 11 and the College, we also contacted the SU, and sent this round to all students within the college. Upon dispatching the flyers, I spoke to the man in the SU about our project when asking him if he could publicise the meeting throughout the college. He really enjoyed the concept behind our practice and was happy to help promote our meeting. However this would have benefited by being done with more time.

Facebookaholics Anonymous Meeting Script/Plan

Plan – Facebookaholics Anonymous

Intro

* Thank members for attending

* Introductions and how often they use Facebook

* Explain purpose of the group and the intentions – read the leaflet out

* Talk about confidentiality and honesty/respect

* Disclaimers – all must sign

* Brief intro to concept of fb identity and social identity construction

Group discussions

* Does your Facebook profile really represent you, if yes in what ways?

* Have you ever lied or exaggerated the truth on Facebook, if so why and what

* How often do you post something fairly mundane/boring on your own or someones elses timeline, why?

* Why do we feel annoyed about people posting mundane/boring things on their profiles, should we feel annoyed?

* Would you be happy if there was no way to untag or remove things from your timeline?

* Would you be happy if everything you did in a day was posted on your timeline as a status and why?

* How selective are you with your profile pictures/photos you are tagged in, and why?

BREAK

Split into pairs and hand out paper and pens

Pair discussions

* Why would you try and alter your identity for Facebook?

* How is your online identity different from the real life you and how? (photos, statuses, fitting in with social groups, music, films, ‘likes’ – selection and choice)

* How often do you write how you really feel in a status?

* Are you happy with how you come across in our Facebook profile?

* Have you ever posted something or changed your profile picture, then removed it because no one ‘liked’ it? And why?

* If you had to make your Facebook identity more representative of your real life identity, what would you change?

* Who are you trying to impress/ fit in with through the construction of your Facebook identity?

Feedback on pair discussions – Any issues raised etc

Confession Time

* Is there anything you would like to share with the group, anything you feel embarrassed about your profile… something you’ve done, or not done, hidden, posted, stalked, lied etc

* Thank group for sharing

* Any feedback

* Any thoughts provoked from the session

Cecelia Kane – How Am I Feeling Today?

Cecelia Kane’s piece, How Am I Feeling Today?, originated from the idea of Facebook’s status updates, How Am I Feeling Today? To which Kane responded by taking 89 photographs, one a day, these photographs expressed an array of emotions which provoked her friends to ensure she was okay, due to the nature of her photographs being deemed ‘unflattering.’  Kane’s project looks at the construction of identity on Facebook, and the questions of how representative of the real you is your virtual identity?

Cecelia Kane, Day 37, Weightless, 2009. Digital photograph, 8 x 10 inches. Photo courtesy Cecelia Kane. Available at: http://burnaway.org/when-facebook-leads-to-art-cecelia-kane-explores-identity/

Cecelia Kane, Day 37, Weightless, 2009. Digital photograph, 8 x 10 inches. Photo courtesy Cecelia Kane.
Available at:
http://burnaway.org/when-facebook-leads-to-art-cecelia-kane-explores-identity/

Bibliography:

Hansell, S. 2013. When Facebook leads to art: Cecelia Kane explores identity – BurnAway. [online] Available at: http://burnaway.org/when-facebook-leads-to-art-cecelia-kane-explores-identity/ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Facebook shuts down artist’s plan to issue mock “identity cards”

In response to Torbias Leingruber’s Facebook Identity cards, Facebook planned to shut down his project due to trademark infringement, however Leingruber claimed that all of the information used on the cards was accessible to the public from people’s online profiles. Liengruber felt that although his project was shut down, it was a success.

However, Leingruber managed to continue his projects by changing the name from Facebook Id, to the more generic ‘social network’, the Social Id Cards using the same layout, colour and fonts, Facebook used Leingruber still managed to continue his project. Offering a limited number of Facebook users these Id cards. This makes me question whether or not the project would have had as much publicity if it wasn’t already criticised for its infringement issues? Similar aspects of appropriation of format have been used within our logo’s.

Alongside this another artist Moritz Tolxdorff, worked with a very similar concept making Google + Id cards, however Google haven’t responded in lawsuit. These are available at : https://plus.google.com/+MoritzTolxdorff/posts/8opAZGV5GVJ

 

Bibliography:

Leingruber, T. 2013. Social ID Bureau // Get your Social Identity Card NOW!. [online] Available at: http://socialidbureau.com/ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Plus.google.com. 2013. Moritz Tolxdorff – Google+ – Create your own +Google+ ID cardI posted it earlier today…. [online] Available at: https://plus.google.com/+MoritzTolxdorff/posts/8opAZGV5GVJ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Protalinski, E. and Protalinski, E. 2012. Get your own Facebook, Google+ ID card | ZDNet. [online] Available at: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/get-your-own-facebook-google-id-card/9671 [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

The Daily Dot. 2012. Facebook shuts down artist’s plan to issue mock. [online] Available at: http://www.dailydot.com/news/fbbureau-facebook-identity-cards/ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Torbias Leingruber – Facebook Id Cards

Torbias Leingruber explored the idea of online Facebook Identity and it’s privacy. His idea looks at the raising social identity crisis and shows the extremes of how it could manifest in the future, by giving people Facebook identity cards as they enter the gallery. His ideas came from a trip he had made where he claimed to have been asked for his Facebook name as a form of identification instead of his passport, he related this to social networking sites and how they are used by society in the digital age.

 

Bibliography:

Martin, R. and Martin, R. 2013. Get your Facebook ID card. [online] Available at: http://o.canada.com/technology/get-your-facebook-id-card/ [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

The Creators Project. 2013. Artist Explores Online Identity And Privacy With Facebook ID Cards | The Creators Project. [online] Available at: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/artist-explores-online-identity-and-privacy-with-facebook-id-cards [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

 

Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperdio

Simon Grennan a practicing artist and Christopher Sperdio work together as a transatlantic collaboration. Within their piece’s they attempt to approach public interaction in humorous ways.

‘Our original aim was to develop an ego-less artwork’ Times Like These, Grennan & sperandio, 1995.

They’re practice worked as a collaborative experience through audience participation, and is often regarded as a project of social Investigation alike social sculpture.

 

Bibliography:

Chester.ac.uk. 2013. Dr. Simon Grennan | University Of Chester. [online] Available at: http://www.chester.ac.uk/departments/art-and-design/staff/dr-simon-grennan [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].

Grennan, S. and Sperandio, C. 1995. Times like these. Manchester: Cornerhouse.

Macêdo, S. 1999. Collaboration in Art: Sharing the Space of One?. Masters. University of Northumbria at Newcastle upon Tyne.