Sources:
http://www.brianpiana.com/category/onlineworks/
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
HW3.4.2 Social Media Artist Research: Brian Piana
Brian Piana uses the hive mind mentality of social media to piece together a fully rendered portrait of society. On his website, thecollectiveme.com (sadly no longer working), Piana created a program that pulls from Twitter's main feed any tweets that contain the word "me." The tweets are varied from happy to sad to obscene. Piana's goal was to connect the diverse viewpoints across Twitter into a unified field of self examination. The result is a self obsessed stream of consciousness based on society's collective view of ourselves. If the website had continued working, it could have acted as a barometer of society's self image and potentially been used to track rates of emotion in response to world events.
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Hi Hannah, Thank you for introducing this artist. I like the fact that he produced the program and let the contents filled from the social media sources. I think recent phenomenon of art engaging to technology tends to provide a system with few conditions (in this case, twitter and the word "me") but left contents open. It is a shift on how we make things (one creator and several audiences to several creators-audiences), and how we try to be collaborative.
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