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Don’t Make a Mistake: While you should post 4 or more images to Instagram on Art110 Instagram Day, that IS NOT sufficient to earn your Activity Points. Please be sure to also Analyze (blog) what you see in our “Giant Group Selfie” on your website. Details on your blog post are at the bottom of this page.

From Ansel Adams to Francesca Woodman and others, many photographers use photography as a fine art medium. They employ a high degree of craft to express a clear and powerful voice. But we also swim in an ocean of Social or Relational photography. There are some excellent photographers on Instagram. But for most peeps, IG isn’t about trying to be Ansel Adams or Edward Weston, it’s a tool with a different goal: to connect and interact with friends and family.

In our Instagram project We the class of “Art110” will try to use IG to take a sort of giant selfie.

Instagram screencap of a post by Beyonce
Art110 Selfie Day:

Thursday, Sept 10

• If you don’t already have an account, just download the IG App for your iOS or Android phone or tablet.
• On Thursday we’ll all use Instagram to take pix of wherever we are across the hours of the day. 12:01am to 11:59pm.
• Please use the hash tag “#art110f15
• You can snap all the pix you like, but please snap at least 4 through the day.

New Account?

If you’ve never used Instagram, it’s painless! Don’t be afraid & have fun. On the other hand, I know some of you have serious no more than 1 IG / Day rules. As a pretty flaky IG user, I don’t personally care about doing 4 or 10 in a day, but if you do, you’re welcome to make a new IG account for the day. Your normal IG, or one just for Art110, it’s totally your choice.

Instagram screencap of a post by Kim Kardashian

Your Blog Post

After our 24 hours of IG posting, please view our hashtag to view our “Group Portrait.” On your blog you can paste a couple of pix. Your own or anyone else’s you find interesting. In your write-up please try to talk about what you see. Do you see connections between your own activities and other classmates? Surprises? Does it feel like a community of some sort? Or totally disconnected lives?

To View Our Pix:

Note that for me, Iconosquare only seems to show hashtag results if I’m logged in. And, there are no Iconosquare accounts, they use your Instagram UserName & Pass to login.

Somebody

Instagram is a nice choice to help us think about Relational Aesthetics, or Social Practice. It’s a popular app and a lot of you are already regular users. But in our fast paced world, IG is already an “older” app.

In August 2014 Miranda July released a new app called Somebody that lets you use phone GPS to have Somebody near your friend deliver an F2F message for you. Here’s her short film demo-ing the app:

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