The narrative captures Jon Lott's humorous and adventurous experiences while hitchhiking across the United States. His journey is filled with memorable encounters and unexpected challenges, offering readers an engaging glimpse into the quirks of travel and the diverse people he meets along the way.
GSD Platform 10: Live Feed is the latest installment of Platform, Harvard University Graduate School of Design's annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions. GSD Platform 10: Live Feed confronts a central paradox: the live feeds of our lives are exponentially more mediated than the analog forms of documentation they are so quickly replacing and erasing. This fact, in combination with the rapid manipulability endemic to all electronic media, now presents us, its users, with radically new conditions of knowledge and imagination. Under these conditions, real-time platforms for meaningful self-expression and fictionalization are inextricably tied to the novel consequences - political, ethical, epistemological - of a world in which distortion, simulation, and manipulation are often indistinguishable from their opposite. GSD Platform 10: Live Feed is a document of images presented in reverse chronological order from July 2017 to August 2016. Pulled from a crowdsourced database of 117,518 available files, this live feed of the institution samples images from students, faculty, and staff alike, revealing the fluidity between the place, production, and people of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.