Anne Forrester-Weekly Artist Post-Cory Arcangel

Working on My Novel is a computer based project by artist and researcher Cory Arcangel. The project began as a program that collected other tweets with the phrase "working on my novel" and then republished them from a twitter account of the same name. The tweets were then compiled and published in a novel themselves.

twitter account: https://twitter.com/WrknOnMyNovel

I find that this work is not necessarily critical or offensive to the original "tweeters" themselves, but rather is a commentary on disconnecting qualities of social media. I am particularly interested in the methods in which the tweets were collected. From what I can gather Arcangel writes a program that searches for and saves these tweets, but the details of that allude me. Arcangel's use of already existing material or repurposed material to then use to make a connection to the viewer is particularly intriguing to me. His work touches on boundaries between private and public domain especially within the internet and computer age we live in. I am especially drawn to the sort of tongue-in-cheek and or satirical approach to his work.

artist website:
http://www.coryarcangel.com/