In collaboration with the Dordrecht Museum, the Art Church presents: Riley Walz | IMG_0001, a time capsule without a filter.
What happens to everyday moments that were once put online and then forgotten? IMG_0001, by American Internet artist Riley Walz (Vancouver, WA, USA, 2002), brings those memories together in a living digital archive. Between 2009 and 2012, you could use an iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4s to upload a video directly to YouTube. These videos were automatically saved with a default name and ascending numbering starting with "IMG_0001. In total, more than five million appeared. Riley built a bot that tracked these forgotten videos. The project grew into a digital time capsule full of moments from the daily lives of unknown people around the world, often never watched by anyone.
In the exhibition, visitors browse through millions of unfiltered fragments, like a box full of forgotten photo albums from the thrift store. Discover what people shared (un)intentionally: four sisters shouting "Happy birthday, Dad!" shouting, singing Irish soccer fans in a pub, a girl in pink pajamas dancing to Britney Spears, and a proud man from Tennessee with a homemade wooden box. What was once thoughtlessly uploaded is now - in a world where perfect pictures dominate the Internet - surprisingly sincere and sometimes unexpectedly relatable.
