Prosopagnosia : self-image as a glitch : commenting on issues of identity and self-representation within the realm of Facebook through the exploration and production of glitch [or glitch-alike] art

Abstract

An investigation of the ways in which Social Networking Sites in general and Facebook in particular have influenced practices of identity performance and self-representation within the digital domain, through the exploration of artistic practices that seek to reflect and criticize our massive hysteria with on-line self-management, engaging the Network itself, in this case Facebook originated content, both imagery and text, in the actual creative process. All these, through the distorting prism of Glitch Art, which is chosen as both an aesthetic idiom and a theoretical framework to serve the metaphor of “prosopagnosia”, a cognitive disorder of face perception, that stands as a key concept for the evolution of the project.