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Stories for Telling Me

Kate — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:37:51 +0000

Opening tonight at Cara + Cabezas Contemporary : Now Knowing – an exhibition featuring artworks that “address early sexuality and the discovery of sexual orientation.” I am participating in this exhibition with a new work entitled, “Stories for Telling Me,” a progressive performance/video piece collecting stories of knowing, meaning, and love. For tonight’s opening, I will be facilitating Phase I: Past + Now.

You can participate long distance by leaving me a voicemail or text @ 573 286 0459, via email at stories@organicartfactory.com, or by visiting the Stories for Telling Me Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/StoriesForTellingMe).
Please let me know if you wish to remain anonymous, as these stories, images, videos, and anything else you may wish to add will become part of the exhibition in one way or another as it progresses.

Stories for Telling Me is dedicated to the memory of Mark Aguhar.

Average User Figures – Facebook

Kate — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:34:07 +0000

# Average user has 130 friends on the site
# Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
# Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
# Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
# Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
# Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
# Average user is invited to 3 events per month
# Average user is a member of 13 groups

UPP phase 2

Kate — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:16:42 +0000

Okay – the next phase of the UPP has launched: get in on it on Facebook .

Decode Exhibition – London

Kate — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:31:52 +0000

Here is some beautiful digital art-making. It’s giving me some ideas about The Facebook Project (tentative title that I’m not really happy with…). Enjoy.

Dunbar and Facebook

Kate — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:08:19 +0000

Do you know how many friends your brain can handle? Well, one guy thinks that it’s 150. And that counts for Facebook too.

Friends

Sage Wisdom

Kate — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:45:33 +0000

This is something I wish I would have thought of myself:

“AFP writes that five French journalists have agreed to lock themselves in a farmhouse in France for five days, where they’ll write news based only on what they read on Twitter and Facebook.”

You can read a bit more about it here.

Disappearance ca. 2010

Kate — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:53:45 +0000

So we’ve been interested in identity and its implications in the digital age. In fact, a lot of our work has been a version of the analog investigation of avatars.

Here’s a link to an interesting article from WIRED about what happened when one man tried to disappear without a digital trace – into an entirely new identity.

Sage Wisdom, cont.

Kate — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:15:59 +0000

We were babysitting my 12 (soon to be 13) year old niece this weekend, and I couldn’t help but watch and wonder at her communication forms and habits. She was generally texting and on facebook at the same time, but she only used the telephone as a phone (a live voice transmittal device) twice: once to ask her babysitter for the week if there was more baloney, and once to let her friend know that she was leaving the house and would see her in about 5 minutes (said friend lives about 3 blks away).

Anyhow, it’s got me to thinking a lot about the way that we will communicate in the future – will any of our communication be technologically unassisted? Is a voice-conversation turning into a nostalgic event? (This is also something we’re exploring as part of the UPP) Anyway, here’s a quote from an interesting article in the NYT:

“But the children, teenagers and young adults who are passing through this cauldron of technological change will also have a lot in common. They’ll think nothing of sharing the minutiae of their lives online, staying connected to their friends at all times, buying virtual goods, and owning one über-device that does it all…”

Read the full article here.

Sage Wisdom

Kate — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:52:40 +0000

You can really learn a lot reading facebook status updates. A few of my favorite quotes from some of our facebook friends (fbfs):

Dax Tran-Caffee “successfully traded a painting for poetry – creativity is the currency of the FUTURE”

Tif Bullard “life is full of flakes – some snow, some human.”

Joshua Esmanuel-David Slater “I wish I didn’t have to pay rent and medical bills and school tuition and other bills so I can shop all day. But then I would be living in my mama’s basement…I still look good so it all works out.”

Universal Patronage Project

Kate — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:07:31 +0000

Sent email appeal #2 today. So far, we’ve had about a 7% response rate. We’ll see how this one goes. Click to see all the latest…