@katyperry, 10 May via ÜberSocial, @rihanna #WERQ

Status Symbols: A Study in Tweets

Status Symbols is a series of virtual portraits that are studies of identity in the digital age of social media. Textual updates on sites such as Twitter and Facebook allow for virtual personas to be created with the prodding of, “What are you doing?” or “What’s on your mind?” Status Symbols showcases these text-based identities created from these status updates. Abstract portraits are created with spinning LEDs that translate written words & characters into flashing bursts of light. Custom hardware and software is used to transform the text into binary code with ons and offs of colored light. Each portrait represents a fleeting moment of identity in this digital society. Images were created with an 8 LED array, Arduino microcontroller, tweets, Arduino program, & motor onto 120 Kodak Portra 160VC color negative film using a Hasselblad 501CM camera.

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Work Title @katyperry, 10 May via ÜberSocial, @rihanna #WERQ
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Penn State
Creators
  1. Lori Hepner
Keyword
  1. Arduino
  2. Twitter Portraits
  3. binary code
  4. minimalist
  5. Status Symbols
  6. social media
  7. Photography
  8. abstract
  9. Visual Art
  10. digital art
  11. circle
  12. Art
License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
Work Type Image
Publisher
  1. Lori Hepner
Publication Date 2011
Subject
  1. Fine Art Photography
  2. Art
  3. Social media
  4. Visual Art
  5. Photography
Language
  1. English
Publisher Identifier (DOI)
  1. S3Roll2_Frame11-16C-blackd.jpg
Geographic Area
  1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Deposited January 12, 2013

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