What is ADD? (v.4)
ADD stands for analog : digital : diary.
It's a collective database of memories, images, word, photos, animations, anecdotes, and anything you decide to include. As a kid, I was always intrigued with time capsules. What would you seal up and leave behind for future generations? What things would you select to represent your culture, philosophy, spirit and thinking? Think of ADD as an ongoing time capsule that has no limit and no judgement on representation. A collective digital diary can be a place for little things, big thoughts, concepts, plans, innovations, experiments, and stories that you want to remember and share. It is what you want to say and as often as you want to say it.
When you submit, we ask that you include a brief description, title, some personal information (name, email, website).
(Note: we don't accept porn, graphically-violent or hateful material of any kind. Please only submit work to which you own the copyright.)
Early ADD (v.1 - v.3)
ADD (analog : digital : diary) began in 1998 as a web project by Emily Chang. In its original form, it was a web documentary, online exhibit, and memory/fantasy infrastructure connected as several hundred web pages containing:
- video clips of experiences
- footage from techno and electronic culture
- abstract animations
- audio tracks
- gameboy prints
- installation ideas
- observations on micro-culture (suburbia and urban life) and macro-culture (global, internet)
- writings about art, pop culture, references to current events, art shows and artists, weather reports, travel logs, profiles, emails, possessions, and obsessions
ADD was updated and recreated daily. Content was generated on a 24-hour basis and structures were added as the information grew. Taking concepts from her earlier project Transmission, ADD takes the theories of hyperreality and makes them real, a record of one individual's interactions with the technology of negotiating real space.
Chang's MFA thesis installation, transmission,opened April 16, 1999, at the CEPA Gallery (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art), in Buffalo, NY. Her public art project involved a window installation at 617 Main Street in Buffalo's Theatre District.
Chang has spent time travelling, working, or residing in Malaysia, Jordan, Australia, Egypt, Singapore, the Netherlands, East Africa, China, Borneo, Indonesia, New Zealand, Canada, and across the US.
+ Her experiences with global culture, commercialism, and electronic living inform her current project, as do discussions of synthetic vs. natural, low-fi vs. hi-fi, and the notion of the individual in mass culture.
ADD v.1
Visit Emily's main site, artcodes.
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