FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL

I plan to establish the relationship of visual communications with one’s self through a sort of self-induced narcissism by superimposing the user’s face with previously selected images of other people. These selected images will be that of the shameful — what people consider “ugly” and inappropriately lower than themselves while also providing a ground for which the user can find interaction with by choosing the face they wish to work with. The navigation of the piece will be easily established without a problem of distraction or uncertainty through an interface depicting a clean and sort of “sterile” environment by means of a white background and simplified forms and correlated color schemes with the images. There will be no confusion between how to select images, how to advance, what to do with the image, and how to proceed to keep your experience in a tactile form. The possibilities within the interface will involve the ability to capture your face, and proceed to debase it with drawing tools, and print it out. I hope for the initial impact of the interaction between the user and the image to be a humorous and playful experience, inviting them to stay and possibly do multiple versions, and hopefully inviting others and spreading the word about it. But in exception to the humor, I want this to be a note about the overwhelming connection between one’s prideful vanity and the desire to degrade one’s self for an immediate egocentric relief. This also coincides with those who already feel shameful and find relief in forcing themselves into a far greater form of humiliation.