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#15 - A Giant Pop Art Collage

Maybe a single post from @micahnotfound won’t look anything particular, but if you look at the big picture (really), you will find out that every single post is a piece of a big puzzle.

Micah Millner visual artist turned his entire Instagram feed into one big canvas where the individual posts together create a huge artwork. It’s basically an endless timeline of today’s pop-culture inspired by current events: movies, sports, video games, music, so you can find in the mosaic David Bowie or the Jurassic World as well.

To maximize the experience, it is recommended to visit @micahnotfound’s profile on mobile.

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Micahnotfound, el Instagram de la cultura pop

Sabemos que Instagram es mucho más que fotos de pies y #foodporn. Mujeres inspiradoras, barbas floridas, incluso bebés durmiendo la siesta pueblan la red. De vez en cuando también es fácil descubrir propuestas creativas como la de Micahnotfound, parte del colectivo artístico Art404. Basado en Nueva York, se dedican al arte conceptual, las performances o la creación de aplicaciones web interactivas, además de llevar a cabo homenajes a la cultura pop como la que podemos disfrutar en su cuenta de Instagram. Desde Padres Forzosos a Jurassic World, pasando por Darth Vader o la NBA.

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Artist Micah Milner Upped His Social Media Game to an Art Form

By Kimberly Wang

Micah Milner, a member of the New York artist collective Art404 that specializes in conceptual online art, describes himself as a “heavily-bearded designer and artist based in NYC.” He might also be better known as his Instagram handle, micahnotfound, which has been accruing legions of fans because he’s turned his feed into a tongue-in-cheek, clever, pop-culture-savvy canvas for his psychedelic designs. We caught up with the designer and self-professed “art junkie and beer enthusiast” to find out where he finds inspiration, as well as what where we can catch him next in real life.

What was the thought process that lead you into turn your Instagram feed into a scrolling piece of art? Micah Milner: Art404 had been brainstorming ways to use different social media platforms as an outlet for a singular work, and this was one of the ideas that rose to the top. Making an image out of multiple posts wasn't a new idea, but to my knowledge, no one had done it for an entire account. Additionally, the ones I had seen would break if the user didn't post pictures three in a row. Once I figured out how to make the image stay connected when just posting one at a time, I knew I was on to something. 

Where do you find your inspiration? The work stems from two places: experimentation and pop culture. The account is almost a practice field for me, since a lot of the techniques and styles are ones that I'm using for the first time. Most of the themes conceptually revolve around elements of culture that affect behavior and social norms on a large level, which is more or less the original Dawkins definition of the term "meme" before it just meant pictures of cats with text at the top and bottom.

  If you weren't a designer/visual artist, what would you be? I think about this a lot and I have no idea. When I committed to art school the what-ifs started swirling, and one of the things that I was seriously bummed about was that I wasn't going to be a commercial helicopter pilot. I have no idea how that career path even popped into my head, but it was top three in the back-up plan category for a long time.

What do you hope for your viewers to takeaway from your work? The designer in me is always concerned with the initial "wow" factor. I really want people to feel like they just saw something unlike anything they had seen previously or were expecting to see anytime soon. A lot of Art404's work is based around posing a question or presenting a subject without an intentional slant put on it, so the idea is to bring an issue to the surface and hopefully incite a visceral reaction on it one way or another.

Where do you like to go with your friends and what is your go-to drink? Barcade [in Brooklyn] is my favorite place on earth, and Jameson on the rocks is my go-to.

What can we expect to see from you next? Art404 and friends will be having a huge collective show at 41 Cooper Gallery on Tuesday, May 5. The show, entitled FRL, is centered around artworks with both physical and digital presences. One of the works I'm most excited is a virtual reality gallery that exists within a physical one that you can walk around in using Oculus Rifts. Another is a giant wall mural made up of over 300,000 Google images. The event is open to the public, so we'd love to see you there.