Brainstorming 1- Interactive Self Portrait

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
4:30am

Came up with an idea for interactive self-portrait that displays some sort of data.
Studying the idea of auto/biographies recently, the idea as to what contents make up a person can be an interesting one to develop.
The idea I came up with is based around the contents of the purses of women and the wallets of men.
For example: Within my purse I have a green book(a journal for ideas), a wallet (with an art sticker on it & content such as my SIN card, concert tickets, photos, etc.), pencils, a novel that i am currently reading, you get the point.
From collecting that form of “data” what sort of information about who I am have you gained?
In theory the SIN card alone could be considered my identity, the journal could expose private thoughts or art ideas i dont want to share, concert tickets could assume Im a music fan, etc.
Then surrounding my own purse are other people within my life and through the contents of the purse you may or may not see the conection that way as well. For example: Maybe the concert ticket in my purse is in that wallet and we went together, maybe i mention something about a woman in my journal that happens to own that purse,etc.

The overall idea is showing the connections between people, and how that reflects upon who you are, and how the simplist of things can contain big connections, or how much something as small as a wallet can contain many personal things to yourself.

So how might I portray this?
The following is a brainstorm for a layout …

On clothing sites (such as H&M) they have a scrolling option to view other outfits.
This could be a good idea for scrolling through bags and wallets.
The following then is a (extremely) rough idea of how it might look.