A new turn

Taking a new approach to the project, instead of making it structured like an interface, taking a more abstract and transparent approach to the project in how data about yourself becomes part of a flow of data on the internet/cyberspace.

However in terms of the project, I am a cross-road do I look at contemporary forms and look at the flows of data that, the different way I project myself on the internet? And visualize this as a novel of my life on the internet, in which flows of images, narratives, status updates become jumbled up flowing towards the user, in which the individual user can point at a piece of flowing data (and stop the flow) and look at where this is sourced from and at what time. 

But visually this flowing of data illustrates to the user that this information become in-grained into a system, whether you ask for it or not such as in Twitter, Facebook, Flikr and so on.

Almost creating a narrative flow of the various ways I can project myself, and how this creates a picture of myself.

This information becomes projected towards the user inviting the gaze in towards all these fragments of information that make up my life. We are no longer in a situation where we are watched from above, but literally this flow of data is created by our consumption of these mediums such as Facebook and Twitter, Flickr and so on. And other users have no choice but to look at this data.

In this way I was thinking of creating a website called MyDataFlows

In which essentially you have a frame in which flows of images, text and other data (in chronological order, as they have been uploaded are displayed to the user). The user can click on the information to see when this particular information was uploaded. Essentially a long strip of data flowing across the screen, the user is presented to it whether they like it or not. This will be collected from my status feed, how I am feeling modes, twitter feeds, photo feeds and so on – in order to create this narrative.

Perhaps set up with data flowing across the screen (left to right) with data, images status updates overlayed over each other, corresponding to the time, in which the user can click, or hover over their mouse to see where the data is from.

The flows of data can be jumbled, or sourced corresponding to where they have been collected from.

Or for example a record, a narrative of the places I’ve been or the things I have said on Twitter or social networking sites – they in a sense make up a narrative of what I’ve been doing, what I have said and where I have been

The main problem is how I would source this data, would it be manually put in by me, or sourced automatically from these different websites.