Via Two Tears
in a Bucket, I found this rather fascinating, and interactive, online art exhibition. Heres
the blurb.
security
personnel are now asking many travellers to take a photo to prove their camera
is not a bomb. Canadian visual artist Isabelle Devos is collecting these
photographs for an international art project. While there have been many
changes in our sense of security, this one may be the only one that is being
documented; a record being produced by travellers on their journey.
Devos wants to
know what people choose to take a photo of under these circumstances. With only
seconds to consider, is it the security personnel, a friend, their luggage, the
floor or something else that they choose to take a snapshot of? From these
collected photos shell develop an art piece that will address the cultural and
social patterns within the images, giving a record of one seemingly
insignificant detail in our ever changing world.
The photos are pretty funny. More importantly, I
guess the readers of this blog travel quite a bit, what with all the
conferences Im going to, so if anyones caught in this position, think of
sending Devos your photos.