TUMBLR GIRLS
Exhibition Catalog + Poster Series / Digital Culture Preservation
This project argues for the treating of teenage internet culture as something worth preserving. There is no comprehensive record of Tumblr as a cultural phenomenon. This catalog does that work. curating images, articles, and song lyrics to both immerse and contextualize, letting assembled voices map the platform's rise and fall. Developed in Graduate Typography 3 with Gloria Kondrup at ArtCenter College of Design.
I've always been fascinated by Tumblr in the kind of way people love the music they listened to in high school. When I was prompted to imagine up an exhibition of anything, I chose Tumblr. Because I felt like it, of course, but soon enough I realized the value in documenting it. There's no sense of urgency to preserve digital culture, let alone treat the interests of teenage girls with any sense of seriousness. I decided to do both, before Tumblr effectively disappears from the internet like MySpace did.
