Use of Profile Photos

This is the massage I sent to all my Facebook friends asking if I could use their profile photos:

 

Hey everyone,

As most of you know I go to Art School. I am doing a photography project on 'the system'. I am looking at the social system, Facebook.

I am going to make an analog version of my facebook friends. This will mean I will be using everyones facebook profile photos. I will be recording myself as I make the web of facebook.

The photos are going to be really small, wallet size and because the web will be quite big the video camera will be set up quite far way. I will be presenting this as a film and will be displayed for 1 day in a gallery.

If you have any problems with me using your profile photo, just let me know.

Thank you,

Amy :)

"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"

The Social Network 2010

Director: Davie Fincher

Writers: Aaron Sorkin and Ben Mezrich

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake

Ok, so after watching this film I kind of wanted to delete me Facebook (Just a little bit) but I didn't.

Does that put an end to my project? I hope not, I don't have time to start a new one...

Facebook Key

The key for my Facebook map:


Light Blue: Friends through friends
Green: Friends from high school
Yellow Relations
Purple: Friends from art school
Pink: Primary School Friends
Red: In a relationship
Black: Was in a relationship
Blue/Green: Friends form work


The background of my Facebook map will be Facebook blue

Family Portraits

Most of the time family photos you hang on the wall are in some sort of order. Such as: Starting from the oldest photos to the newest one etc.

This is very similar to the family photos hanging on the wall. In a way these are family photos: A Facebook family.

Here is a really quick example of a Facebook family:

Facebook looks something like this?!

 

New York and London Subway maps.

Is this what Facebook really looks like?

Key of the London Subway:

Everything in the map is so well thought out right down to colour coding. I can do the same for my Facebook map. 

For example-

Brown = School friends

Pink = Art School friends

Blue = Relations

Red = Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Married etc

and so on through all the different relationships. 

Soon I will be make my own 'subway' map out of about 320 of my Facebook friends, even colour coded!

Wish me luck, I'm going to need it!

Hitchcock Blondes

Two of my favourite things: Hitchcock films and fashion photography, look what I found...

Richard Warren: New York Fashion Photographer.

There are lots of other nice works and info about him on his Website

Facebook web

This is one more of my tests. I picked 10 of my Facebook friends and made links to who's friends with each other. I then took the photos off and was left with the web.

Double Rainbow!

Khan Test Two

This image worked a lot better because there are less photographs and they have a higher % of opacity between each of them.

Khan Inspiration

This is the first work I have done so far using Kahn as inspiration.
I took 10 of my friends Facebook profile photos and turned them all into one image. Between each image is a 3% opacity difference. Unfortunaly you can only make out the first four images and the rest are too covered up.

Idris Khan

Idria Khan (1978, UK) is an artist based in London. Khan comprises digital photographs into a single frame. For example that works of Bernd and Hilla Becher:



 These are some of Khan's images:

These photographs are amazing. There are so many photos within the one photograph, but you can still tell what the image is of.

Another artist that does this is: Jason Salavon.

Salavon (1970) is an American contemporary artist. He uses custom computer software of his own design to manipulate preexisting media to create new visual works of art.

Here are some of these works:

Friends of friends of friends of friends...

Experimenting with Facebook and Facebook friends.

I pick the first person on my friends list and clicked onto their profile, I then clicked on their first friend. I did this until the persons profile was set to private, which was the end of the chain.
(The people on bold are the people I am friends with on Facebook.)

Amy Moffitt - Caitlin Donnelly - Paddy Woodman - Abbey Hawer - Tom Woodham - Matt Chapman /

Amy Moffitt - Helen Waddell - Megan Finlay - Anthony Kenny /

Amy Moffitt - Belle Bird - Alyxandra Lunn - Justine Lam /

Amy Moffitt - Harry Lees - Nick Wallis /

Amy Moffitt - Dan Benn - Gemma Laws - Nicole Martyn - Conner Douglar - Corey Robinson-Adam - Samantha Naylor - Autumn Cribb - Ronald Hape - Rick Gray - Samuel Gregory - Uriah Carson /

Art History: Twenty-First Century Art

The September Issue

10/09/2009

The September Issue is an American documentary (2009) about the behind-the-scenes making of the September issue of Vogue magazine. The documentary follows editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and the staff as they make the largest ever September issue of the Vogue magazine. The documentary is directed by R.J. Cutler. Because of the popularity of the film, the September issue of Vogue sold for prices between (US) $80-$115 on eBay. Making the magazine the most sought after Vogue ever.

No.5

12/02/2006

In 1948 Jackson Pollock paints a work he entitled No 5. The painting is painted on an 8 x 4 sheet of fibreboard. The painting consists of thick amount of drown and yellow paint drizzled on top of the fibreboard. The Jackson Pollock painting, No 5 sells privately for $140 million in 2006. This makes No 5 the most expensive painting ever sold.

Ron Mueck

03/12/2010

From 2 October 2010 to 23 January 2011, at the Christchurch Art Gallery there was an exhibition of Ron Mueck’s Sculptures. The works ranged in size, from about 180cm tall all the way to larger the life, 2.5 meters tall. With all different types of figures, from two little old ladies gossiping, to a towering heavily pregnant woman almost double life size. Ron Mueck is one of the world’s most famous Sculptures.

Beloved

13/12/2009

Beloved is an exhibition currently being held at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and finishes 30th October 2011. The Beloved exhibition is to celebrate New Zealand first Art Gallery, established in 1884, 125th year. Beloved showcases a selection of artworks form the gallery’s collection. The exhibition ranges in media including painting, sculpture, photography and installation.

Drawing Project One: Sonic Landscapes

"All you can hear is nothing"

For my drawing project I have decided to look at broken sound. What happens/doesn't happen when record, cds etc are broken. 

John Cage said:

"There is no need for sounds to be anything but a sound."

I am going to look into this quote and develop more on this. The idea that the sound doesn't have to have a meaning/narrative to be 'sound.'

Milan Knizak (born April 19, 1940) Czechoslovakia) Knizak is a performance artist, sculptor, musician installation. To name a few.

I am going to look at Knizak works and develop my ideas from his ideas, works such as:

Broken Music Composition, 1979

Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian is an American artist (1968 California) Katchadourian is known for her conceptual works that explore themes of mapping, translation and public space.

For example:

Rock Tree Family

I really like the idea of this artwork. It's taking the ideas of mapping people family history and giving a history to something (in the case rocks) that doesn't have family heritage.

This work makes you laugh when you first see it, because of the facts their rocks. But then after looking at it you start to see the connection to the different mother and father rocks the Nina might have/have not seen when making this art work.

I really like this idea of mapping things out and will be doing more research on this topic.

Social System

Facebook!
Don't we all just love Facebook.
Here are some interesting facts I found out:

-When you type 'F' into google, the first thing that pops up is...you guessed it: Facebook

-The average facebook user has 130 friends
-There are more than 25 billion pieces of content on facebook

-People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on facebook

Because facebook is such a huge medium in the 21st century, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico decided to turn it into art.

Face to Facebook

"Stealing 1 million fb profiles, filtering then with face-recognition software, and then, posting them on a custon-made dating website, sorted by their facial expressions/characteristics."

Other works by the pair:
-Google will eat it's self
-Amazon Noir

http://www.lovely-faces.com/
-This is the dating website

Nirto Circus

Nothing to do with my project. But I uploaded them anyway :)

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Bernd and Hilla Becher (born 1931 and 1934) were German artists working as a collaborative duo. The siblings are best known for there extensive series of photographic images of industrial buildings.

More Information

I find these two artists work very interesting. There photographs are so carefully photographed to all look the same, yet somehow you can see so much difference.
I will be using Bernd and Hilla Becher as a starting point for my photographic works.

Project 1- Systems

First project of the year! YAY

A quick fire project resulting in an exhibition beginning from the theme of systems.

(location to be determined)

The exhibition must demonstrate engagement with the multiple, the system, the network.

The exhibition should move your practice outside of previously used media/ processes. If

you have participated in this project previously you must find a different hardware/

software/ print solution for the project.

You must document your participation in, and analysis of the project in an online workbook.

Lets get started...

PROJECT: