Digital Suicide is a term that refers to the elimination of one's information online, in particular social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook. Over a period of 18 months, artist Liam Scully committed a 'digital suicide' by deleting all his information on Facebook. It was found by Scully that Facebook recommends you to download your data file from this site so that it is possible to access all the information again if you ever want to. 'A Digital Suicide' is a body of work by Scully in response to his 'past-life' on Facebook. He prints every page of this meta-data from his profile onto pink thermal electrocardiograph (ECG) paper and then draws, paints or collages onto this paper recreating posts and images included within this data. The time spent producing each image can vary from 30 seconds to 20 minutes, depending on the mood evoked from the data, which he had previously uploaded to his Facebook profile. Liam Scully's aim for this project was to spend his time reliving his time on Facebook through the act of drawing where he would have before wasted this time spent online. The artist stated "I am fond of the idea that these reclaimed life fragments can now be dispersed among people's personal collections, where essentially they become the property of other people".
I have already used ideas from Liam Scully's 'Digital Suicide' within one of my mock-ups, where I had printed coded text images onto pink paper. I will continue to work with these and similar ideas in my final design process, and will also consider printing directly onto graph paper itself rather than simply interpreting the colour.
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