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Artist Erik Kessels has created an installation piece where 1 million photos collected from the internet in a 24 hour period are piled up, waiting for a visitor to walk or drown within other other people’s lives.

In his words: “We’re exposed to an overload of images nowadays. This glut is in large part of the result of image-sharing sites like Flickr, networking sites like Facebook, and picture-based search engines. Their content mingles public and private, with the very personal being openly and unselfconsciously displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a twenty-four hour period, I visualize the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences.” Erik Kessels/ Kesselskrammer.

http://www.foam.org/press/2011/whatsnext