The icon for a blank Facebook profile is re-configured to appear as a head consisting of visceral meat, layers of fat and tissue. This newly imagined Facebook profile is grounded not in the non body of a virtual place marker but the individual profile as bodily materiality.
While Facebook results in the over sharing of personal information, such a notion is perversely represented as the skinned human body - the veneer of our exterior selves broken down as our visceral interiors are left on display within the network of social media.
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https://vimeo.com/89373164
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- Year Created: 2014
- Submitted to ArtBase: Monday Mar 24th, 2014
- Original Url: http://www.ianhaig.net/index.php?section=project&name=video&num=2
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Work Credits:
- ianhaig, primary creator
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