— unpredictable thoughts

This is a cap­ture from my first tweet in Fol­low­ing Piece 2.0, a global col­lab­o­ra­tive art project as part of @Platea. I’ve writ­ten a recap of my expe­ri­ence par­tic­i­pat­ing in the project. and you can find it at : the @Platea blog.

I have been work­ing on an online book of the project and expect to add more thoughts here and at my ART­log. I hope you’ll check back on the project and leave your thoughts about the work. It was an excit­ing experience.

Are you fol­low­ing me?

About the project from @Plateau:

Fol­low­ing Piece 1.0
Forty years ago, in Octo­ber 1969, artist Vito Acconci per­formed Fol­low­ing Piece. A study in the pub­lic spaces we occupy and assump­tions around pri­vacy, Acconci fol­lowed ran­dom peo­ple in Man­hat­tan dur­ing the month and reported on their activ­i­ties until they entered a pri­vate area such as an apart­ment or car.

Fol­low­ing Piece 2.0
And so, with that in mind, I thought it might be fun to do a cover of Fol­low­ing Piece, but to look at it specif­i­cally in the con­tem­po­rary con­text of Twit­ter, a world where public/private bound­aries are shift­ing and erod­ing, as once-private activ­i­ties are broad­cast into online pub­lic space. In the world of Twit­ter, the idea of fol­low­ing has taken on a new mean­ing: once an uncom­fort­able thought, it’s now reg­u­larly seen as a good thing to have one’s pri­vate actions fol­lowed by many strangers.