Initial Ideas

For this summer project, the task is to investigate the umbrella term 'Identity". Being such a broad term, I began with a mind map of some ideas and themes which link into the idea of identity.

One thing I want to work on next year is photography and photo editing, so when considering ideas, the concept of investigating online personalities grabbed my attention as a great opportunity to work with some new mediums. When looking further into the online theme, the idea of catfishing came to mind. A catfish is someone who uses a social media account pretending to be someone their not.

MTV does a show called catfish where they follow people who have fallen in love with people online who turn out to be 'catfishing' them. Meaning the person thinks their talking to someone else, and their profile uses fake photos of other people. So I could use this as research for more information on catfishing and how it affects people.

Linking this back to art and artists, I've been interested in glitch art and distorting photos and paintings to give them a warped and glitched effect.

Following on from this I plan to do some research into artists who create glitch art or artists who distort their work to give it a warped look.