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http://www.turbulence.org/



First artwork I looked at:


"The Essential Guide to PerformingMichael Mandiberg by Michael Mandibergwith funds from the Jerome Foundation andthe National Endowment for the ArtsPart user's manual, part experimental self-portrait, The Guide is an on-line tutorial that teaches the user the details of performing Michael Mandiberg's persona. It is part of The Exchange Program, a series of exchanges in which Michael and nine others switch lives with one another for ten days. The guide-as-user-manual turns personality into procedures, situations, and props. "



This project was interesting, to be honest I’m not sure it really happened, that these people changed their lives with another person. The site had collected diary’s and photo’s and questionarres from the people who experienced the ‘swap’. I liked the site, the pieces of the event that had already happened. I got the feel that I was interacting with the complex narrative that was taking place by searching through the evidence of the event. The mysterious nature of the person who took over the others life, both I and the friends and family will never know who they really are. One of the elements I most enjoyed was the response from friends and family involved, some got into it, others seemed quite disturbed. Amazing the amount of individualism can come across in a simple questionnaire. Overall it was an interesting interactive art piece slash social experiment, challenging the familiar and exploring the boundaries of identity.