For this years work i have looked at the theme of identity, and how it is portrayed in the new media. I have chose to look at my space, and used this new media a s my inspiration for my 'OPEN' project. I chose to look at how much information that people show online,m and how easy it is to find out certain things about people.

I started looking at the website manual it stated that:

"Whether you want to build an audience or communicate with your closest friends, the MySpace Privacy Control Panel allows you to control what information is shared, who can contact you, how you are notified and the tools to eliminate unwanted spam.

Privacy (Edit)
Here you control who can see you are online, who knows your birthday, who can view your profile, who can share your photos and how to block specific users and users by age."

However......

I found that it was simply to easy to log-on to other peoples profiles and view their personal information, without them knowing who i am.

I then created a profile and called myself 'mystery guest' and posted a blog and asked people to send me images that are personal or in some way related to them, and also a piece of text that again describes them.


These are some of the examples that i received:

milly tripping-sent form a women in Manchester.

Becca boo boo- sent from a single mother in London, with the words

" my pride and joy"

I found that quite a few people linked and viewed my profile, but disappointingly i only received 25 images. However those that did, sent me the information i required without them knowing anything about myself.

I then posted the image3ds onto a power point along with the text, name a country or town they were from.

Please view on USB under title OPEN PROJECT

here are the links to the pitch and curate projects that i did..

https://weboutlook.staffs.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://misound1.blogspot.com/ Research task 1
https://weboutlook.staffs.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://lawrislackresearch.blogspot.com/ Research task 2

Marcus Harvey

This years research

This years work has been based on the theme of identity and haw important it is, and the way that identity can change after traumas. This topic of identity is very important to me as trauma's in my pas thane made me who i am today. Most of the work i have looked at i have linked to a more in depth, dark view of the work, for example the work done by Marcus Harvey.

Myra Hindley, Marcus Harvey

Myra Hindley's infamous and widely recognized 1965 mug shot has become something of a cultural icon and has been spoofed in a variety of humorous and satirical contexts, most notably by punk graphic designer, Jamie Reid. In the late 1970s, Reid produced a silkscreen design of the familiar Hindley photograph (à la Warhol's Marilyn) and adorned it with the caption "God Save Myra Hindley" in ransom-note lettering. The image was featured as a poster in the punk movie, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980). However, the biggest media controversy was over Myra, an image of the murderer Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey. Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley's victims, asked for the portrait, made up of hundreds of copies of a child's handprint, to be excluded to protect her feelings. Along with supporters she picketed the show's first day. Even Myra Hindley, herself, sent a letter from jail suggesting her portrait be removed from the exhibition, reasoning that such action was necessary because the work was “a sole disregard not only for the emotional pain and trauma that would inevitably be experienced by the families of the Moors victims but also the families of any child victim.” Despite all the protest the painting remained hanging. Windows at Burlington House, the Academy's home, were smashed and two demonstrators hurled ink and eggs at the picture as a result, requiring it to be removed and restored. It was put back on display behind Perspex and guarded by security men.In my opinion the artwork on Myra done by Marcus Harvey is an exceptional piece of work. It is all about one thing, creating the sense of disgust in the viewer, that such a hated face should be displayed as art in a gallery. This piece of work amazes me in the way that Marcus Harvey has used children's handprints to create the face of a “monster”, I think its brilliant. He has created not only an image but he has also involved the women’s crime in his work. Instead of a women being seen as a motherly figure, someone who is warm and gentle, Myra is seen as a gloomy, fearful women, its straight to the point.

I then chose to use photoshop to create sevarl different handprints.