[Social Media Artist] grahamGrafx //

Graham Smith is a new media artist who studies network science, digital identity, social media, game mechanics, and fine art. He has developed several innovative projects around facebook. One of them is the Facebook Road Trip: mini documentary, by which he went on a 1 week road trip  to visit over 100 friends on Facebook in person. 


Facebook Roadtrip from grahamGrafx on Vimeo.

He later expanded this project to create Digital Painting: Social Network. On his trip he took people's pulse through their wrist, and a physical souvenir. These pulses were used to create a "digital painting" of lighening bugs. For each Facebook friend there is a lightening bug, and each bug blinks at the same pace as that friend's pulse. The souvenirs were each placed on their own shelf. The heart beat resembles emotional expression and individulaity. The lightning bugs and their pulse represents a desire to connect and find others in virtual space. This project questions that whether digital environments can adequately communicate emotions like that of physical objects which bear significance. 

Digital Painting: Social Network (2009)

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