UWM Arts+Technology Night

Fragmented Self is an interactive installation that allows viewers to navigate the artist’s portrait, shown as a projected grid of sixteen videos containing cropped portions of the artist’s face. Walking forward and backward, shifting side-to-side, and running across the space, individuals cause the artist’s portrait to contort as a computer voice reads a selection of the artist’s tweets. Mobile technologies and social media like Twitter allow individuals to know what their friends and acquaintances are doing and thinking at all times but often in shallow, fragmented updates like quick snapshots or 140-character postings. In Fragmented Self, viewer-participants manipulate, uncover, and learn more about the artist – one digital fragment at a time.