New Project Proposal

After researching and looking more in depth with the broadcasting artist, Arthur Fields; I gained many new insights and ideas to my next project.  To further incorporate the concept of broadcasting and Facebook as the vehicle, I've thought about using peoples actual Facebook profile pictures.  In a specific work with Arthur Fields, he created a piece that uses all 600 of his Facebook friends and displays all of their profile pictures.  I wanted to include my original message of creativity and how it's ultimately limitless.  To incorporate my Facebook idea with creativity, I'm going to use the concept of identity.

From the ideas of Arthur Fields, I'd like to use profile pictures of my friends and use that with my broadcasting piece.  My final thoughts on this project would be to make two different panoramic size canvases and include several profile pictures.  With the first panel of identity, i'd blur the profile image to where it's difficult, if not nearly impossible to distinguish who the person is in the picture.  With the second panel of creativity, i'd also use profile pictures but use several different effects and filters to make the images hard to distinguish.  The main concept behind my project would be that there is often a gray area between people's self identity, which can ultimately affect ones ability to be creative. Along with using peoples profile pictures, to further the idea as Facebook being my vehicle, I'm going to use status updates as well.  I think that it would be interesting to choose a status that focuses on a specific person's creativity and advance with that idea.  I could still include the profile picture, but also overlay the status and connect that with my message of creativity and identity. In order to present this material, I would create several of these image and status combinations to create a collection of works that would be displayed on Facebook. When each different image and status is posted, I could also include a "quote of the day" that would discuss my overall concept of creativity.