Speed Dating // Round Robin Workshop 2

March 21, 2018 (After Two-Day Sprint)

Between March 19th and March 21st, our professors tasked us with participating in a sprint. This meant that we should be creating as much as we could and working quickly within two days.

While on spring break, Tiffany found a magazine published by AdBusters about social media and its impact on society. It was a provocative and intriguing issue that presented the idea of social media through pages of collages and “glitch art.” Inspired by her finding, we had pivoted our concept away from the exhibitional video to creating a magazine or zine that would be a culmination of our research, responses and a call to action.

Following the sprint, we brought in spreads and pages that would play with typography and image. We wanted to call out the meaningful quotations that we had read and heard from esteemed researchers and our peers. We prototyped what the magazine might look like. We were toying with the concept of a mini zine, that would sit inside the larger booklet. This publication would talk about the rules and boundaries people believe Instagram has created.

During the feedback session, we received questions about our visual system, language and how we wanted to present such a massive amount of content. The other teams seemed to respond well, generally, and wanted to know where the project would go. This left us with questions about what our systems of things would be. Would we create an exhibition? Where was the information going to live? What is the point?

We met with Molly Steenson, one of our professors, after the Round Robin session. Her feedback was that we needed to make sure we were making enough for the members in our team. We needed to carefully consider where and how the information could live after we made this magazine.

As a team, we met to discuss and debrief the day’s feedback. At this point, these were our considerations:

• How do we frame it so it is critical or satirical
• At the end, this is the research that we did
• This is everything we’ve found
• We hope you’re aware
• We would like more consideration for insta/finsta (mini zine)
• Come up with titles about what we are trying to say (ex: “Chained to the feed”)
• BE MORE EDITORIAL about it. Be more like Banksy
• “We the People of Instagram…”
• “Virtual Self” — title of the project or Me, Myself and I(nstagram)

Going into the weekend, we had planned to work through more spreads, taking into account this information and planning out the format/division of the information.