Technically Connected | MFA Thesis Exhibition

Technically Connected is an exhibition of large-scale digital photographs, portraits, and videos that reveal identities and behaviors associated with users of social networking programs in the context of personal communication devices, such as smart-phones, laptops, and personal computers. This work focuses on people who use personal technology as a primary source of communication between family and social groups. The work reveals technology-mediated relationships by combining digital photography and appropriated imagery to contextualize personal stories of daily technology users. Formal portraits of technology users investigate notions of self and social identity through the type of image that is used to represent their on-line identity. Technically Connected uses staged images to explore the process of self-discovery through narratives of behaviors associated with technology use and the roles that people assign personal technology in their lives.