I am logged into an Instagram account, identical to the one you are in now. I am posting a photograph and I am going to screen-shot and repost it again and again until the compression artefacts of the algorithm reinforce themselves so that any semblance of the photo, with perhaps the exception of pattern, is destroyed. What you will see, then, is the algorithm of Instagram articulated by photography. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my photo might have.
Une variation photographique du I Am Sitting in a Room d’Alvin Lucier. Au-delà de l’expérience technique, I Am Sitting In Stagram pose la question de la pérennité des photographiques numériques : elles ne « vieillissent » pas comme les photographies argentiques, mais elles peuvent être altérées par la compression, des erreurs de lecture/écriture, ou des problèmes du système de fichiers.