20 February 2013
More than 200 people from all over the world are already documenting their everyday lives as part of the global net-art project "I am we_interactive image". The art platform, designed for participation, was funded by Digital Content Funding of MFG Baden-Württemberg. The web site provides the opportunity for all those who wish to participate to compile their personal photo diary online.
An interactive overall picture is computer-generated, a mosaic that constantly changes as pictures are uploaded. This will also be presented at exhibitions. Independently from the overall picture, participants are able to exchange "interactive image" photos amongst themselves. Thanks to the app for Android and iPhone it is now possible to "feed" your photo diary at any time.
Since December 2012 the free "I am we_app" is available in the app store for all artistically active iPhone, Android and smartphone users. They are invited world-wide to explore their own world through a photographic diary, to make it available to other users, and to become part of an overall artwork in the process. In January 2013 the app was awarded five out of five stars by the online magazine Androidmag and rated as "very good".
The initiator of the international art project "I am we" is the media artist Wolf Nkole Helzle. He explains the advantage of the I am we_app this way: "The new app is contemporary and correlates with the central idea of this global art project 'from me to you to us'. Situations and events can now be captured immediately by a mobile phone camera and uploaded to the Internet. This way the participants have our global diary always handy."
With this art project Wolf Nkole Helzle aims mainly at the relationship between individual people and the community. The diary of the social media art platform was also established with this in mind. Its origins lie in this question: "Is there a relationship between myself and what is around me? Is the observer the observed?" "I am we_interactive image" invites to take part in this discussion and in the corresponding interactive communication as observer and as active participant.
Overcoming borders through interaction
More than 200 people have applied since the beginning. They come from France, Holland, the USA, Turkey, Argentina, Japan and Finland. They let others participate in their everyday activities, their celebrations and customs, interests, joys and sorrows. More than 30,000 comments indicate the large interest in the project. The platform has collected in the meantime more than 11,000 images and diary entries from around the world.
Over 2000 tiny, individual pictures are selected from this database and computer-generated into a unique mosaic. After a certain time it disintegrates again and new randomly generated pictures appear. This way an overall artwork is created at regular intervals in which people from all over the world are participating, characterised by constant change and thus always moving. The daily picture on the ii-platform crosses borders and denominations and allows dialogs and friendships to blossom.
The program Digital Content Funding (DCF) supports new and film-related media applications with interactive content, and is sponsored by MFG Film Promotion and MFG Innovation Agency for IT and Media. A total of 500,000 Euro per annum is available.
source:
MFG Innovation Agency for ICT and Media
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