Roland Barthes suggests that a person moves from Object to Subject by constructing her/his own visibility. Yes Sir is interested in the ways in which technology mitigates this process, often within the utopian framework of empowerment and equality, while simultaneously eroding established norms of public and private.

Images that were once in the domain of friends, family and lovers are no longer discriminately distributed. Web searches allow strangers access to “photo albums”. Peer-to-peer networks operate on the mandate that users “share” files.

The inherent level of visibility directly affects the ways in which images are constructed and presented. As a result, the implied consent that the author concedes to the technology provides an expanded reading of the self-portrait. The perceived casualness, cluttered bedrooms, sexualized moments and mundane routines afford us an opportunity to look closer at the ways in which an individual represents her/himself and contingent privacy. This project explores the ways in which technology contributes to this self-actualization, via peer-to-peer file sharing and digital self-portraiture.

“Many true statements are too long to fit on a PP slide, but this does not mean we should abbreviate the truth to make the words fit.” – Edward Tufte in The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

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