I don’t know exactly BUT in his Introductory letter asking for permission to use my online persona for his project, he included his “inspiration photo” that was going to guide him through his efforts:
an art piece called “Printing Out The Internet”.
There isn’t a better representation of my organizational skills than that.
HOW he managed to sift through all that and find posts and videos of me that “felt like me” – to me – well, I’m still in amazement. I could not do such sorting.
apparently I have a “self-critical” eye in my internet experience, “noticing myself noticing” and that’s a theme he seems to have chosen in his choices for what stuff from me to include.
Navel gazing. It helped get a 22 yr old italian boy a bachelor’s degree a few months back so that’s a something. I don’t know what it’s a proof of but maybe it’s a proof that there’s a ‘something’ of value after all.