Wanna be in art? Head on over to your nearest art museum and stand in front of a framed work of art. You’ll see yourself in the reflection. Snap a photo and now you are officially in the art!
It would be great if people would post photos of themselves in modern art.
Above is a collection of photos with me inside a Joseph Albers. I purposely framed my hands with the iphone inside the center square of each serigraph. The iPhone captures the contemporary nature of viewing art in the 21st century. The art preserved on the wall from its time in 1965. Outside the art is 2011. The viewer with the newly released iPhone 4S.
Time parallels itself.
I’ll be posting more photos of self-portrait reflections in modern art. I hope others will join me in this reflective journey.
you have the iphone 4s? with that 8 megapixel camera that’s supposed to take “stunning” photos according to Apple’s commercial?
it’d be interesting and probably actually annoying if you did different poses in each photo. You were prob better off just keeping the same pose.
The pose is about viewing the artwork through the iphone instead of the actual piece on the wall. It speaks to how we expereience art now more through digital means, even when the actual original artwork is right in front of our face. Plus, this series embeds myself into the artwork, yet, it embeds me through my engagement with the phone, instead of my engagement with the artwork. The artwork almost becomes secondary to my primary experience with the phone.
oooh yeah. viewing the artwork via your iphone. I really like that. It reminds me of that scene in Oceans Eleven where the dude is watching a hotel being imploded on his television when the actual event was happening outside his window.
here’s another piece I did last night. http://www.flickr.com/photos/spudart/6332881567/in/set-72157627979669783 I made an origami box out of a sheet of paper from the Felix Gonzalez-Torres stack.