identity

Micro-Project #4: The Collective Body

By: Randall Packer |

The Collective Body: This micro-project involves the construction of a “collective body” made up of our body parts randomly reassembled and reconfigured into a single composite body. Using your iPhone or Photo Booth and your built-in Webcam, shoot six photographs of yourself close-up: (3) face – 2 profiles, one frontal, (2) each hand, (1) upper… Read more »

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Micro-Project #7 – A Day in the Life of Super-Participation

By: Randall Packer |

People share and participate in every kind of daily action, interest, obsession, no matter how trivial or mundane. I refer to this as super-participation: sharing and posting the events and personal detals of one’s life on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. For A Day in the Life of Super-Participation project,  each group of five… Read more »

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Micro-Project #8 – I am My Desktop

By: Randall Packer |

As we increasingly spend time in the virtual world of our computers and mobile devices, and less and less time in the physical dimension, our identities are being reshaped. Perhaps we can say that we feel more at home on our virtual desktop than the physical one. As we make this shift from the physical… Read more »

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Micro-Project #9 – Video Selfie

By: Randall Packer |

Video Selfie:  Using your iPhone or computer with photo booth (or similar Webcam video software), create a one minute video of yourself that constructs your selfie as an “artistic alter ego:” the artist or designer you want/choose/aspire to be! Choose a location that you find best expresses this constructed sense of digital identity: studio, campus,… Read more »

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