The money network

We have spent most of our time refining our ideas and developing a concept over the first half of the semester. In this project we aim to reveal the fact that money is not just a form of currency. With it, is carried a vast amount of emotions and connections that affect all of society. It is a powerful force that has the ability to rift entire communities and brings to life every human emotion available to us, ranging from hatred to something as strong as love. Not only is money a network that provides a sense of order to civilization but it is also a key driving force to our cultures, behaviors and most importantly to our social network. In a sense, the money network acts as the spark that ignites the connections between people revealing the hidden network that both bonds us together and drives us apart as a society. To show this fact we want to conduct a series of interviews with an wide range of different demographic groups, ranging from children to the elderly and document their views and opinions of how the money network effects them both behaviorally and emotionally. We want to use such a range of people because we believe it will reveal the fact that the view of money is changing over time. We wish to inspect how peoples perspective of how money effects them as they progress through their life. By interviewing people of all different backgrounds and social classes we want to further convey the flexibility of how it affects interactions within our communities.


We really want to explore how different demographic groups view money. We wish to do this through the use of small interviews where questions will be asked about the effect money has on their lives. Using this information we will then construct our own artistic view of how money controls society and how we interact with each other.


We are still experimenting with questions, but here are some of the primary things we will be asking people:


What does five dollars mean to you? / What does fifty thousand dollars mean to you?
Do you think the amount of money you have affects the person you are today?
Have you ever judged someone that you assumed to have more or less money than you? If so, how did this change your perspective of them?
Has does money effect your relationships with other people? Negatively or positively?
(Optional Question) How much money do you earn a year?