Nicole Abanador
Twitter-based Identity Poll

detail of nicole's poll

"...another way to engage with followers to create an art piece that uses audience input...we were talking about how identities on social media can allow for positive and negative exploration because of the ability to keep relatively anonymous on the internet

results of nicole's poll

...with those thoughts in mind as well as thinking about parasocial relationships between a creator vs their following, I wanted play with the idea of asking my followers what they thought I looked like and if there was a certain 'look' that they viewed me as....Overall, while I thought the premise of the project was good and was also a nice way to branch off of the poll-led drawings that I've been making all semester, I do think that this idea needs more work. However, I believe that it also goes to show that simple features in social media apps such as polls can generate many different methods of making for artists if utilized to the fullest extent."