Twitter founder Jack Dorsey
The prospect of watching two people tweet may sound like a terrible dinner with your friends who work in PR, but context is key. Tonight at the Rubin Museum of Art, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey will tweet back and forth with Jungian psychoanalyst Dogulas G. Tompkins, who will use the technology to pry into his subject’s dreams and memories—140 characters at a time. The tweets will be projected onto a screen for the audience to read, and they’ll be mixed in with responses from other Twitter users following the conversation.
Questions abound: Will it be awkward? (Probably.) Will Tompkins draw out the inner secrets of the entrepreneurial mind? Will Dorsey momentarily forget himself and type “feeling a bit gassy—hope no one notices ;)”? And what if the dreaded “fail whale” rears its ugly head and publicly embarrasses the head Twit? The point is, anything could happen.
The event kicks off at 7pm, but get there early because the $25 ticket (students $7) includes admission to “The Red Book of C.G. Jung” and all other museum exhibitions before the tweeting begins. And if the convo begins to falter, hightail it down to Comix for more Twitter fun: Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and other comedians will be on hand to celebrate the launch of new comedic-tweet aggregator WitStream ($15 plus two-drink minimum).
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