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From Rhizome Artbase
The tears we cry while watching television characters experience the pains of living are as much for ourselves as for these fictional characters. Viewers who become "too" involved with TV shows are often criticized as escapists, but humans have told and heard stories throughout history. We need them to understand who we are, as individuals and as parts of a culture.
EverybodyHurts.org is a hybrid art/fan site, which explores the idea that mediated emotion is as real as non-mediated emotion. It tells the story of my own personal connections to contemporary televisual fiction, while exploring such methods of meaning-making as collection, appropriation, cultural participation and creation.