A Los Angeles based journalist is taking part in an exhibition where she will live in a shop window for a month with social media as her only contact with the outside world. She will be in the glass box for the entire month of November with Twitter, Facebook and Skype as the only ways to communicate with the outside world. The rules of this exhibition that she has had to skype members of the press that are outside the window just to do an interview. She is undertaking this challenge because she is sick of going out to dinner with friends that are constantly on their smartphones. She is worried that people are just accepting all these forms of social media as the norm now and don’t even stop to think they might be bad for you. The 3 things she misses most about the outside world are coffee, hugs and fresh air. Prior to this challenge she has said that she had an active social life—both on and offline.
This initiative is all a part of The Public Isolation Project. The Public Isolation Project consists of two symbiotic and simultaneous art pieces–Joshua Jay Elliott’s An Examinable Life and Cristin Norine’s The Future of Socializing. An analog analogy of the contemporary experience of living in the Internet age.
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