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Public Domain: London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company (active 1855-1922) - First published in Borderland Magazine, April 1896

Public Domain: London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company (active 1855-1922) - First published in Borderland Magazine, April 1896

Destroying a Picture, One Regram at a Time

As a graduate student at The University of Delaware, Minneapolis-based artist Patrick Koziol drew a portrait of 19th century Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, and invited his fellow students to copy it like a visual game of telephone, or perhaps a tangential riff on the classic Exquisite Corpse. With Darwin and Wallace’s evolutionary theories in mind, Koziol’s intention was to see how interpretation might evolve or distort each artist’s representation of the original image when their only source material was the previous student’s rendering. Two years later, in November, 2014 Koziol, launched a new version of the experiment on Instagram, under the alias Reregrammer, and a new project was born.

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PostedMay 4, 2016
AuthorJon Feinstein
CategoriesArtists
TagsInstagram, reregrammer, exquisite corpose, Alfered Russel Wallace, Patrick Koziol, image degradation, Charles Darwin, glitch art, new media

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