INSTAGRAM
This project investigates how Instagram
changes the way people interact with others. Traditional way for communication
is to meet in person and make conversation with others, gazing into the face.
Real space where people could intercommunicate is necessary for the way, and
people can share feelings in that space using their five senses. However, the
advent of Instagram, new type of social networking platform aiming at
photo-sharing, allows individuals to contact to each other with only image.
Although the application makes people not to use their other senses excepting
the vision, it accelerates the interaction of people and still use the place as
a medium.
Instagram constantly creates a huge number of
disembodied eyes staring physical places. The eyes produce numerous flattened
images of physical spaces by means of a mobile apparatus. And then, the images
are uploaded in the online space with hashtag to interact with people out there.
The information of pixel, which is transformed from physical space, spreads to
the world and creates a connection with people who are interested in the same
space. At the moment of connection, those who live at a distance could share
same vision of the specific location, and then disperse to make another
interaction.