Image by Allan Appel for the New Haven Independent

In "Nothing to Tweet Home About", I sent roughly 100 postcards throughout the exhibition, to create a living physical installation of updates. Each postcard, inscribed with a brief "tweet" written by me and a "geotag" in the form of the postmark,was placed on the wall, adding up to a total of some 100 updates.

By taking the status update out of its digital context and isolating it in a physical gallery setting, I aimed to explore how these updates can create an impression of an individual, a living self-portrait aggregated from minutiae from my daily life.

As part of this project, I participated in a panel discussion entitled "Big Love," organized by arts blogger Sharon Butler and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Fellow panelists included art critic Paddy Johnson, Facebook portrait painter Matt Held and technology writer Sharon Kleinman.

Press/Related:

Appel, Allan. New Art Exhibit Faces Facebook. New Haven Independent. May 15, 2009.
Spiegel, Jan Ellen. Where Art Meets Social Networking Sites. The New York Times. July 2, 2009.
Dankosky, John. How artists are using facebook to change their work and their community. WNPR. May 22, 2009.