Self As A System  

  
2023


This piece is the final iteration of an assignment titled "Self As A System", which tasked students to turn their social media data into a self portrait. I decided to focus on a platform that I interact with the most: twitter.

When you export your data from twitter, it includes a media folder that contains all images and videos from tweets you have interacted with in any way. With over 5,000 images divorced from their context, I found the mixture of reaction images, topical memes and images of serious world events to be both humorous and telling. I chose to display a number of these images scrolling haphazardly in a static photo in place of my eyes. On a platform where I'm not trying to project a particular self-image, does this data truly reflect me, or the world around me as I perceive it online?

       

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