I am attempting to plan my MFA exhibition. I need to 1) identify the precedents that will influence my exhibition choices, 2) come up with 1 practical exhibition idea & 1 radical exhibition idea (no budget), 3) write a timeline for developing new projects & revising old projects to show in the exhibition, & 4) outline my thesis report.

I have a few exhibition influences (The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, LA ART SUCKS, Artzilla 2007, & Listening Post) but am looking for more display-of-digital work.

I have a practical exhibition idea: sit at a table & create radical lifestreams for people waiting in a queue. Those in queue with smartphones can browse past videos of other people starting lifestreams, information about why they should lifestream, & step by step technical solutions on how to start lifestreaming. Throughout the exhibition, viewers can contribute to a group lifestream that will be projected on the wall behind me. Each person who visits may choose to contribute, as can individuals not at the exhibition. What is projected may influence how the exhibition is documented. An auto refresh script may ensure the group lifestream stays recent. The questions this raises that I have yet to answer: "what is my goal in creating this group exhibition lifestream?" and "what system is being subverted through this lifestream?"

As for a radical exhibition idea, I would like to construct an enchanted funhouse full of dark surprises (18 & up!), I take one person at a time inside & hand them an already-set-up-to-lifestream smartphone to document their experience, and go for an adventure while figuring out their deepest desires. The documentation will collect in a website that I can personally email the participant, who will leave with the phone (or have their own set up) and continue on a magical documentation journey for the rest of their life, uncovering their individual path to happiness while helping others doing the same. I would likely market to them a more advanced set up once they've gotten addicted.

I have things I'm thinking about for starting new projects: going with the RADICAL LIFESTREAMING direction and fleshing out an approach for that. I would also like to create RADICAL LIFESTREAMS to address each one of 43things.com most popular new year's resolutions of 2010.

Concurrently I am beginning to set up RADICAL LIFESTREAMS for clients & am refining my approach to constructing them.

And some feedback about subversive lifestreaming I don't want to forget about:

1. Having goals foregrounded in public.
2. Living life in public (have you seen the "Shredders", who take a body picture daily, then make time lapse movies of themselves getting more muscular over 90 days?)
3. Gaining a reputation for achieving goals and having this come up on search engines related to those goals
4. Having an archive that I own vs. having it on the cloud were things can happen that are outside my span of control.
5. Sending an email, and having it update multiple social networking tools.
6. Having a similar system for myself and for my organization.
7. Getting free stuff, and having something for sponsors.

& LASTLY I am exploring personal premium content & as always recording TPP eps.

Thus concludes my 'don't forget where you left off before making some broccoli' post.

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