The human eye, on average, views around 20 billion images throughout its lifespan.
Every month, approximately 2.5 billion images are uploaded to Facebook alone. The website Flickr hosts 4 billion. Millions of people also upload numerous twitpics onto Twitter every day.
Statistics like these got us thinking one day. Wouldn't it be amazing if everyone using such websites could join together and produce something epic. Wouldn’t it be interesting to create one of the world’s largest art projects by just using images from social networks alone? Think about it.
Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace play such a huge part of our lives these days. Its hard to think what we did before these websites existed and what it would be like if we didn’t have them at all. There would be no poking or liking on Facebook, no tweeting on Twitter and no moods on MySpace.
People are continually uploading photos of all sorts to these websites, so what would it be like to have all these images presented as one big art work? It would surely show the power of the internet and social networking sites in our lives.
So, after hours of chatting and brainstorming about this subject, we came up with the idea of TheSocialArtwork.com, the world’s LARGEST art project.
Using the power of social networking websites such as Twitter, MySpace, Flickr and Facebook, we aim to make this a global project, one that everything can be done through these websites. Not just the collection of images, but for everyone all over the world to have their input on everything from how we should display the final image collection, to where it should be shown, to what happens over the next few years.
The more coverage we can get, the better. The more people involved, the better. The more photos, THE BETTER!
We are currently developing our website, thesocialartwork.com, and it should be live within the next week or two. As the main idea of this project is to use social networking websites, our website is pretty basic and has just been designed as a hub to provide information and links for people wanting to be part of this exciting new venture.
Hopefully as this project gathers speed and progresses into the huge project it deserves to be, more and more people will join us.
At the moment we have setup profiles and groups on the main social networking websites, links to which can be found on our website. However, if there is a network that you feel should be part of the social artwork experience, please get in touch and let us know.
At the end of the day, we are just trying to do something different, something that we hope has never been done before and something that we hope can be fun and get as many people involved as possible. We don’t know much about website development (hence our basic website) or about what good or bad things this project will bring (hopefully all good though).
So with this in mind, we invite you all to become part of something huge, the worlds LARGEST art project, The Social Artwork.
After all, its up to you guys to make this work!
Much Love
Mr ArtWork
x
