How to Win Friends and Influence People
Animation (In Progress) and Sculpture Series
In the animation, I fall into Dale Carnegie’s 1937 book How to Win Friends and Influence People and am mentored by the author, who gives me advice and some tools to help me deal with people. I consider every part of the book How to Win Friends and Influence People as material for my project: The words. The author. The style. The physical object. I also see myself -- the reader -- as a material. The project plays with the self-help genre by acting out Dale Carnegie’s book. What are these peculiar rules that govern social interaction? Is it ok to not be ok?
Funded (in part) by a director's grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT and the Peter de Florez Fund for Humor
The animation playing inside of Dale's book How to Win Friends and Influence People.
The ears have speakers embedded in them that play the audio from the animation.
The animation playing inside of Dale's book How to Win Friends and Influence People. 
The ears have speakers embedded in them that play the audio from the animation. 
Fishing for friends at the MIT Media Lab Complex. 
Cheeseburger detail 
Dale Carnegie Mask and Performance - In Progress