Art + Science

Writing at the Intersection of Art and Science

Instagram and Anxiety of the Photographer – Part III
Photography, Photography and Technology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Perception, Social Media, Social Analysis Joshua Sariñana Photography, Photography and Technology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Perception, Social Media, Social Analysis Joshua Sariñana

Instagram and Anxiety of the Photographer – Part III

Over the past few years, iPhoneography has created a new form of photography that has and will continue to re-structure how we interface with technology, gather and generate data, and how we create narratives. iPhone (and similar smartphone) users employ mobile photography to disseminate mass amounts of information, to subvert cultural institutions, and for political rallying. These behaviors parallel the same strategies of the radical Avant-Garde art movements of the 20th century.

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Instagram and Anxiety of the Photographer – Part II
Photography and Technology, History of Photography, Avante-Garde, Postmodernism, Modernism, Cultural Analysis, Social Analysis, Art Criticism, Art Theory Joshua Sariñana Photography and Technology, History of Photography, Avante-Garde, Postmodernism, Modernism, Cultural Analysis, Social Analysis, Art Criticism, Art Theory Joshua Sariñana

Instagram and Anxiety of the Photographer – Part II

The Avant-Garde movements of the 1910s, the 1960s, and the 2010s (via mobile photography) have not only changed photography but did so by further integrating technology with art, allowing photography to become unbound from its predecessor, unbound from space, and unbound from time as we once knew it. It is this fracturing of photography and art into all imaginable directions that generates anxiety about the future of photography (art by proxy) and creates a new generation of photographers unbound by the past. This opens up an entire generation to forms of thought that is nearly absent from the previous generation.

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