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.
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.
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?
- On Mobile > Instagram > #art110f15
- On Web > iconosquare.com/viewer.php#/tag/art110f15/
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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