Mixus is a concept that explores the complexity of identities. It questions people's assumptions and opens their eyes to thinking about identity in new ways. Mixus is a two part concept that consists of a public installation and a website. The public installation is a story booth located in public spaces where people from all over the world can go in and record their stories prompted by questions about their identity. The story is then uploaded onto the website where their stories are analyzed into a data visualization. The visualization breaks down the content into community, personal, and family. Users can see who they are similar and different to based on the frequency and infrequency of spoken words. Aggregated visualizations pooled together with audience responses tell a larger story about how people see themselves and their place in the world, and how the world views them back.

1. Pamela Jue . Meghana Khandekar . Rachelle Milne
23 April 2013 . Urban Fictions with Daniel Goddemeyer . SVA IXD

2. “[I am] not an Athenian, nor
a Greek, but a citizen of the
world.” — SOCRATES

3. RESEARCH

4. Identity is not a constant and is something that is
renegotiated on a regular basis, be it at the individual or
at the national level. This is especially problematic for
those of us living in the diaspora, we deal with so many

5. Modern life is lonely in many ways, but the ability of
everyone with access to a computer to find like-minded
people has meant that no one need be excluded from
social kinship . . . Vertical families are famously breaking
down in divorce, but horizontal ones are proliferating.
— ANDREW SOLOMON

6. HORIZONTAL
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7. PROCESS

13. PROJECT

24. thanks.

25. APPENDIX

26. Initial Research

27. “Japanese did not understand why the Japanese-Brazilians played loud
music, failed to sort their trash perfectly and did not seem bothered
about arriving late to appointments.”

28. “Like most Anglo-Indian women of her generation, she has lived all her
life in India and has never been to Britain. But she converses only in
English. At school, she said, she learned a little Latin and French and
enough “kitchen Bengali” to speak to servants.”

29. “I shouldn't be surprised, then, by the fact that most kids and teenagers
of Chinese descent I've interviewed here know little about their Chinese
familial history, seem bored by the required Mandarin classes, care little
for anything Chinese...and consider themselves proudly Peruvian.”

30. “The parents of so many exceptional children must be educated to see
the identity within a perceived illness; the parents of prodigies are
confronted with an identity and must be educated to recognize the
prospect of illness within it.”

31. “Suddenly here's proof of a family trait being passed down through yet
another generation. From Benjamin to Oscar and then/now to me. For
my mother, an outsider -- but also a credible ‘witness,’ to declare that
I've also inherited the ‘stubborn gene,’ is a pointed comment on the
mystery of family mythology, the psychology of parenting and the
linking of generations.”

32. "I could say alright this isn't a choice I made, it doesn't indicate
something traumatic about my history, this is just the way that I am
and I should think about being this way rather than scrutinize how I
can change." — David Jay

33. Inspirations

37. Experiments