#pete ashton

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Pete Ashton http://art.peteashton.com

[the-long-nothings]

Since Instagram has no mechanic for reposting (unlike, say, Tumblr), users who want to “regram” an image take a screen capture and post it as a new image. Each reposting introduces generational loss as the image is transcoded from PNG to JPG and optimised by Instagram. While initially irrelevant, the loss adds up and the image degrades.

[littleestablishment]

Little Establishment is celebrating its second show. Series II will be opening on the evening of Thursday the 8th of September and run for three days at the Enough Space Gallery tucked away in the Chapel Street Precinct in Prahran. In true form of our concept where a collection of Melbourne artists hand paint onto fine leather and denim jackets, Little Establishment will be shedding light onto the ever present loom of anxiety and depression with a new capsule of all white Jackets. Artworks by: Adam Atkinson Pete Ashton DOGWRONG667 Jordie Halsall Matt O'Brien Montaine Stuart Gareth Sther Pigeon Boy Taylah Kleid Jamie Edward Maddison Kitching

[videostrolls]

Cross City Walk by Pete Ashton and Andy Howlett. Walking in a straight line (roughly) across the city of Birmingham from Selly Oak through Birmingham Uni, City Centre, Aston, Spaghetti Junction and Erdington. Starting and finishing on the Outer Circle bus route. Pete wore a chest-mounted GoPro that automatically took a photo every 5 seconds. The photos are shown here at 10 frames per second.

Pete - “When we walked from the University to Spaghetti Junction we thought we’d be comparing two monlithic institutions which happened to be opposite each other, but the real interest happened along the Aston Expressway where we were forced into a desert of industrial estates and business parks. Each one was a monument to investment and regeneration policies of the post-industrial era, some successful, many not-so. The architecture along this route was atrocious but it didn’t matter as no-one would ever pass this way accidentally.”

For more info on the ongoing Cross City Walk project, and to get involved, see: www.xcw.org.uk

[nevau]

So, this is what happens if you re-post the same image to Instagram over and over and over and over.

[zwentner]

Instagram Bilder bis zur Unkenntlichkeit kopiert

Wer ein Foto in einem sozialen Netzwerk wie Instagram teilt, bekommt oft gar nicht mit, dass dort eigentlich nur eine schlechter aufgelöste Kopie landet. Der Künstler Pete Ashton hat das ganze neunzig mal mit ein und dem selben Bild gemacht. Was dabei herauskommt hat wirklich nichts mehr mit dem Original gemein. (more…)

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[anotherconservator]

Experiment Shows What Happens When You Repost a Photo to Instagram 90 Times

[micboc]

This Is What Happens When You Repost an Instagram Photo 90 Times http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/this-is-what-happens-when-you-repost-an-instagram-photo-90-times http://art-pete.com/art/i-am-sitting-in-stagram/