Vilem Flusser: Excerpt from "Toward a Philosophy of Photography" and assignment

http://www.altx.com/remix.fall.2008/flusser.pdf

Distance

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Remix a short online narrative using both "Distance" as your visual model and the Flusser text as your theoretical source material.
 
Your image/text sequence should be 10-15 pages total.
 
Suggested ways of sourcing/creating images:

• Surf the internet for live web cams, take screen shots of selected web cam images, and crop and resize images to fit "Distance" template.
• Capture images with a mobile phone and crop/resize as necessary.
• Take screenshots of live video chats (i.e. Skype, iChat or Chat Roulette) and crop/resize as necessary.
• Find images and build a profile on http://www.thefancy.com/ t use in your narrative
• Use the photo album function on Powerpoint to create your slideshow and anaopensource app like Slideshare to publish your narrative to the web.

For each image, create a one sentence text caption that remixes autobiography, fiction, poetry and/or theory focusing on themes that resonate with contemporary ideas of the "virtual self," "networked identity," "online role playing," "electronic narcissism," or any other phrases and concepts you research, remix, or make up on-the-fly.