Playground Society

My friend Scott Wayne Indiana launched a fun new project a little while ago that I've been meaning to blog about. Playground Society prompts participants to explore playful situations around them, to capture those situations with a handy-dandy camera phone, and then post them to Instagram.

Here is how you can participate (instructions taken directly from the Playground Society website):

Three times a month, a new Play Mission is posted to @PlaygroundSociety on Instagram. Play Missions are designed to offer two things:

1) A prompt or parameters to get players thinking, and
2) The freedom for each player to interpret the mission in his or her own way.

For example, the Play Mission #psStack is a straightforward prompt to think about stacking things in a playful way. But what things? Rocks? Laundry? Sushi rolls? Your roommates? And how will you stack them?

When you decide to accept a Play Mission, you can interpret it however you like. Just snap a picture of the result (your pencil sharpener stacked on top of your sandwich stacked on top of your dog?) and share it to Instagram with 2 hashtags, #PlaygroundSociety and the mission hashtag.

Let's. Have. Fun!

Screen Shot

A seed for a new project has been planted. To launch it into being, I am asking people (friends, family and strangers) to send me a single screen shot of their computer desktop screen. How do I do that? You may ask. Here is a helpful link with instructions.

For this project, I'll be examining the unique placement and patterns of files on a screen. Flat and artificially lit screens lack the depth and light found in nature or any physical space that surrounds us. And though screens remain flat and too-bright, once a user begins to add files to their machines, screens begin to look more organic, or more like a piece of the user's personality. Some screens may be meticulously organized while others are more chaotic. No two screens are alike.

The submitted images will all be posted and added to a dedicated project page on this website. After I've compiled enough of the images, I plan on doing large-scale ink and watercolor drawings of each screenshot submitted. Each participant will receive a print of their desktop image.

If you are interested in participating, please email me your screenshot.

The Digital Treats of Kim Asendorf

Gifs by Kim Asendorf - a conceptual artist who works with media and digital related art. He loves to transport things from the Internet into real life and back.

I dig his stuff.