ELENA AFIRMATIVA
MySecreTweet
Project selected to participate in the CreaMurcia 2015 exhibition in the Visual Arts category.
My experiments with the Processing programming language continued with MysecreTweet, an application conceived from George Bernard Shaw’s phrase: “There is no secret better kept than the one everyone knows.” The project transformed anonymous confessions into canvases generated through visual encryptions that were posted on Twitter, thus questioning the boundary between the intimate and the public in the era of extimacy—that contemporary impulse to externalize the private. From a sociological perspective, social networks have profoundly altered our conception of the self and the Other: identity is constructed in constant dialogue with others’ gaze, driven by desires for visibility and approval. In this context, MysecreTweet invited users to write a secret which, once entered, was deformed by the program until it became illegible. In this way, the intimate was made public only to become unreadable, materializing the paradox of our time: to publish the secret precisely to assert its impossibility of being shared.








