Roel Wouters & Jonathan Puckey’s crowdsourced animation project flitser.org is inspired by the ultimate amateur photo: those pictures of people who have taken photos of themselves in a mirror and who have seemingly been ‘decapitated’ by the flash. By remembering the positions of all the flashes and by placing the photos in a specific sequence, the artists managed to create a coherent stop-motion type film that merges all the self-portraits made by different people in different places at different times. The flash starts a life of its own and seems to fly through the screen in a fluent line With the iPhone app -developed specifically for this project- you can add your own flash photo to the project and play with the flash animation. The artists comment on the current social networking trend in which everybody continuously tries to make him/herself as visible as possible. By merging the results of all these ‘narcissistic’ individual gestures into a collective film, the artists have created a social film project which needs as many people as possible to participate in it in order for it to be successful.
Check out http://flitser.org, download the iPhone app (only available on iPhone 4), and use this arts-project as an excuse for some shameless self-promotion!
flitser.org was developed specifically for the Cloud Sounds exhibition and has been sponsored by the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) and 5 Days Off.
Roel Wouters was born in 1976 in NL & Jonathan Puckey born 1981, NL. Both artists live and work in Amsterdam, NL.
http://flitser.org/
