MANIFESTO

Selfpost | Postself

To do:
After years of resistance, I will ‘out’ myself to Facebook.
I will no longer lurk.
I will be a friend.
I will work through my resistance.
I will not hide anymore.
I will observe myself in the chaos.
I will expose myself to the network of all networks.
I will allow social networks to collide.
I will witness the past, present, and future in one space.
I will respond to the now, recognize the past, and proceed to the future.
I will set limits and filters to maintain mental balance.

Why?
To research myself as subject with/in network.
To be both subjective and objective in the process of emergence.
To understand myself in relation to social networks/groups.
To observe any impact on my sense of purpose.
To see how it makes me think and feel differently.
To examine a networked self as both a node and a system.

April 4, 2010
Heidi May

  1. That’s funny. As for myself, after being exposed to your class, I have gone into the shadows and I now lurk.

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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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“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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