Tanja Hollander's picture of me and family 2 years ago....
Are You Really My Friend?
A photographer travels the globe to
photograph 600+ Facebook friends
Thursday,
Feb. 14
12:30-1:30
C&J 121
Tanja
Hollander, a photographer based in Maine, is in the process of photographing
all her Facebook friends (626 when she started) in their homes around the
world. Tanja has spoken of her project on Tedx Talks and will speak at UNM this
week at the C&J Department. All are invited.
Facebook friendships exist in the nebulous
world of cyberspace. Social networking creates a forum where we may connect or
reconnect deeply with dear friends or become acquainted with new ones on
a superficial level. What happens when we reach across real time and space
to physically connect with these same “friends”? In her new exhibition, Maine
artist Tanja Alexia Hollander examines that question; she collapses the
intangibility of cyberspace by traveling around the world on a modern-day
odyssey to actually visit her 600 (and growing) Facebook friends.
-- Portland Museum of Art
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