Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
#artselfie opens with an incisive remark by Douglas Coupland, who warns us that ’”Selfies are mirrors we can freeze. (. ) Selfies allow us to see how others look at themselves in a mirror making their modeling face when nobody’s around . except these days, everybody’s around everywhere all the time. “#artselfie emerged in 2012, right as the recent photographic phenomenon known as the selfie reached it’s tipping point. It was subsequently activated by New York based collective DIS, as an aggregated mode of art-tourism and documentation. These selfies and their dialogue with art are an opportunity to revisit fundamental…