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  • Stranger Danger Video
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  • Stranger Danger Video
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  • Stranger Danger Video
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Emily Vuong
Bachelor of Arts
and Bachelor of Visual Arts
ke2aii@hotmail.com

Stranger Danger is based on research and exploration around the influences internet social networking has on our identities. The challenge for me was to create a body of work that was able to take something very familiar to our generation and turn it into something engaging and refreshing. The video involves targeting young adults, answering a series of obscure questions that were derived from the Facebook 'info page' from which they unknowingly responded to. My intentions were to capture the genuine and intuitive responses, that would usually be very different from the responses written on each individuals’ Facebook page. While the comparison is not crucial to the work, the idea is used to drive the piece, as it encourages viewers to question the real and the virtual. Although the artwork directly references Facebook, Facebook was merely a platform used to comment on social networking in general.