Final Project Conclusion: Full Circle

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Swappie Repository has finally been launched and exhibited. I had a lot of fun in the process of coming up with my final project and learnt a lot from research and my project hyperessays. Although this is the end of the Open Source Studio class, it certainly will not be the end of my swappie exploration. I feel that there’s still much that can be explored, learned and studied from swappies and that I have merely touched the surface of it in the given time that I had within the duration of this class.

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For now, I left my Swappie Repository with a gallery of swapped images of friends and reblogged images of celebrities. Possibly, in future, when I am better equipped with codes and javascript I would attempt to create the swapper again. I had found open source javascript codes for facial recognition online but lacked the knowledge and skills to appropriate said codes. I wasn’t able to create the swapper in time for the exhibition/project but I feel that a swapper would allow my audience to better understand the process – and go through the learning process and giggle with me. The swapper could be a page that launches a persons webcam, detect his/her facial features and swap it automatically. Currently, the process I went through was to manually select a public picture from my friends’ social networking sites and distort their faces on Photoshop one by one. It might have illustrated how I wanted my site and project to look like overall, but the way it is presented could have been better. Current site last updated 13 November, 2 pm.

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I updated the ABOUT section to include what swappie is and its aim to put into context what the audience is seeing in the repository/database. I left a hyperlink on Selfie city as the work had inspired me throughout my process. I consider my project unfinished at this stage and it could be worked on and developed more in the future. But then again, a work like this could never really be “finished”…

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Overall, I feel like the process of creating this final project has came full circle; I started my exploration of identity remixing in digital culture and social media with the collective body exercise followed by the video selfie and then learnt about glitches. I wouldn’t have thought about the idea of using swappies as a tool to get people talking about identity and the internet if I hadn’t learnt about net art and participated in these class exercises. Blogging about the process and journey behind a creative work had never crossed my mind till I took this class.

 

 

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