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Slideshow

"I'm So Digitally Alone: Internet, Touch & Proximity" presented by Marni Shindelman

Miller Learning Center 250
Special Information:
FREE, open to the public, First-Year Odyssey event
Friday Speaker Series

In 2007, Twitter had 5000 tweets each day. Twitter now estimates there are over 500 million tweets daily, which together with Facebook and other micrblogging, platforms create a new level of digital noise.  For over then years now, I have been working on the implications of an ever-increasing virtual world on social interactions and communication. Within all my work there is a return and a longing for touch in this virtual age.  Touch may be through sleeping with objects, memorializing Internet strangers, developing psychic connections or recreating the specifics of private scenes of public disasters.   For this talk, I will trace this thread through my most recent work, both as part of the collaborative team of Larson & Shindelman and in my individual work

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