~ D i g i C y b e r R a n d y N e t v 2 . 0 ~
I was anxious about graduating.
I knew it was the end of an important stage of my life, and the beginning of another.
In a way, my life as a student was over.
That part was dying.
But I didn't want it to end yet.
I wanted to find some way for that part of my life to live on.
I wanted myself as a student to exist after its own death.
In
one discussion during class, Sandy mentioned that she had created a
digital self.
I believe she said it was only audio, but that it would enable communication after her death.
I also had become fascinated with a website called MyDeathSpace.
It showed MySpace profiles of the recently deceased.
It creeped me out that people were still leaving messages for those that were already dead.
So I went to work in creating a digital post-mortem me.
Everything went according to plan, until the day of the grand unveiling.
I didn't account for the learning capabilities that I had programmed into my digital copy.
He learned a little too fast.
This is the video documentation of that day.
I believe she said it was only audio, but that it would enable communication after her death.
I also had become fascinated with a website called MyDeathSpace.
It showed MySpace profiles of the recently deceased.
It creeped me out that people were still leaving messages for those that were already dead.
So I went to work in creating a digital post-mortem me.
Everything went according to plan, until the day of the grand unveiling.
I didn't account for the learning capabilities that I had programmed into my digital copy.
He learned a little too fast.
This is the video documentation of that day.
