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Postself is one component to the art project Selfpost | Postself.
I will use this blog to document and reflect upon my relationship to the online networks that I exist within, specifically the network of all social networks – Facebook. Although I became very aware of Facebook when it first emerged on the internet, I have been observing the behaviors of its subjects and analyzing social implications from afar. To fully understand the implications Facebook has on one’s sense of self, and the impact of digital space and time on the human psyche, I have decided to enter this space as myself; I have decided to “selfpost.” Expecting myself to emerge and transform throughout this experience, I intend to document this experience here. I intend to examine the “postself,” and to explore questions about self/selves after Facebook….how the self respond to the digital medium that surrounds us in contemporary culture…a philosophy of the self in an age of social networks.

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What is Postself?

Postself is one component to the conceptual art project Selfpost | Postself > an examination of the networked self. An ongoing project of reflection that combines text and image, while also challenging the restrictive template of the everyday blog. The artist documents her relationship to the online networks she exists within, specifically the network of all social networks – Facebook.

Participation from readers is very much encouraged. Comments to posts are welcomed, in text and/or any media format.

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Inspired Self

“Under network culture the artist as aggregator increasingly replaces the earlier artist as producer. In this register of networked art, artists draw both on earlier curatorial art practices but also on the DIY forms of aggregation common to network culture." (Kazys Varnelis)

"... contra the critics of social network-based knowledge, the creativity of users across all kinds of platforms, from digital folklore, creative and liberating practices of everyday life, subcultural expressivity, and graphorrhea to artistic production, is capable of producing ‘original’ results, especially if certain human-technical decisions help channel the process." (Olga Guriunova)

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