You might have noticed that the reposted versions of an Instagram photo are often of an inferior quality as compared to the original image.
This is also known as generation loss.
UK artist Pete Ashton aims to explore this phenomenon in his project, titled ‘I Am Sitting In Stagram (2015)’.
Ashton would upload the original photo to Instagram first. Then he would take a screenshot of that image and repost the screenshot to the app again. This is repeated for 90 times so that he can fit a six frames per second (FPS) timelapse into Instagram’s 15-second limit.
Ashton got his inspiration for the project from composer Alvin Lucier’s ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’—where the latter would do a recording, re-record its playback and repeat it until the recording is unintelligible.
Find out more about the project here and watch the video below:
1 -> 90
A video posted by I Am Sitting In Stagram (@sitting_in_stagram) on Feb 7, 2015 at 8:00am PST
[via PetaPixel, images via Pete Ashton]