Another emerging female artist who is all the rage on the national scene right now is Plus Gallery's very own Allie Pohl, who launches her Art Cart NYC project this Friday June 1st and through the weekend as part of the Bushwick Open Studios. For the Truck Yeah! event, part of Bushwick Open Studios from June 1-3, 2012, Art Cart NYC and Allie Pohl will present the artist's recent "Defaced" project as a mobile art exhibition, displaying all the comments pulled from the sites on LED screens on the exterior of Art Cart's truck. Visitors to the weekend-long event can enter more comments through their smartphones or through an on-site computer, and watch as those comments form a greater conversation around the many facets of the social media experience.
Social networking websites give us the ability to construct our ideal selves - who we want to be and how we want to be perceived. We have become our own virtual-celebrity publicists by controlling and monitoring what is posted about us, ensuring that only our best selves are represented. This ability to design our digital lives with an ideal in mind has created a new breed of social anxiety, and as a result, we spend hours on our computers and phones curating our online personas while comparing them to those of our "friends" or "followers." - Allie Pohl
Defaced invites users to participate anonymously in a discussion about how they really think and feel while using social media. The project will reveal the socially unacceptable comments individuals restrain from writing. By considering questions such as, "what makes something facebook-worthy?" Defaced sheds light on the "how and why," the sentiments behind the social media user experience. In a digital age in which the lines between the physical and online worlds are blurred, one's perspective can be hard to maintain. Defaced will explore this rapidly changing landscape.
To participate or find out more, visit
http://www.defacedproject.com/
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