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Asger Carlsen

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'Reely and Truly' - a short film on photography (Director's Cut)

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Instagram’s decision to hide photoshopped images is a disservice to art

In a controversial turn of events, Instagram has begun hiding photoshopped images on its platform — even in the case of creative uses.

San Francisco-based photographer Toby Harriman was scrolling through his Instagram feed when he suddenly spotted a post flagged for “False Information,” PetaPixel writes. It was a first for him, so he clicked through the warning pop-up, only to find it was simply of photo of a man standing on a rainbow-colored hill.

“Independent fact-checkers say this is false,” the message warned. “The primary claims in this information are factually inaccurate,” it continued, linking to a report from a website called News Mobile Fact Check Bureau, where you can see the original unedited image.

You read that right: A person had reviewed the image (which is clearly embellished for artistic purposes), and concluded this specific piece of art was “false.”

This latest instance of reinforced censorship is the outcome of Facebook’s continued efforts to counteract the dissemination of misinformation with authorized third-party fact checkers. Unfortunately, the move has taken a guiltless victim: digital art.

“Interesting to see this and curious if it’s a bit too far,” Harriman contemplated in a Facebook post. “As much as I do love it to help better associate real vs photoshop. I also have a huge respect for digital art and don’t want to have to click through barriers to see it.”

An Instagram spokesperson told TNW the company uses image matching technology to find further instances of the same image as a measure to reduce the spread of misinformation. The technology apparently flagged the image above as potential misinformation. The post was subsequently assessed by at fact-checker, who concluded it is, indeed, misleading.

The spokesperson also told me Instagram feels it’s the platform’s responsibility to provide users with further context, and inform everyone a piece of content has been “debunked.”

But can art be debunked? And if yes, does it need to be?

There are artists whose entire careers revolve around image manipulation.

“Photoshop provocateur” Vemix has notoriously placed manipulation at the core of his artistry. Kurt Cobain never hung out much with Eazy-E to my knowledge, but in the world of Vemix, celebrities form the most unlikely unions.

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TBT with a Meme “You Know You’re Wright” @the_unfriend_zone

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Art doesn’t have to stay “true” to the real world. Often, the whole point is to create experience that betray our reality.

Case in point: Asger Carlsen. The Danish photographer has concocted an entire world, where mundane everyday scenes suddenly become depictions of a surreal alternate reality.

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Wrong 2010.

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Instagram’s new fact-checking measures, though, put such images at risk of extinction

A part of me understands why Facebook deems this move necessary.

The Zuckerberg empire has come under fire for its role in the spread of fake news — notably during the 2016 US presidential election. It has also repeatedly been quizzed about its course of action to tackle the imminent “crisis” of deepfakes.

The decision to hide photoshopped content — even in when the purpose is clearly artistic — strikes me as an attempt to get ahead of this threat.

In all fairness, I’m yet to encounter a photoshopped post that has been flagged for misinformation, even though I follow tons of accounts that engage in creative image manipulations. So, evidently, the platform still struggles with enforcement, and, perhaps, it is still figuring out where photoshopped content fits the taxonomy of forbidden imagery.

Whatever the case is, I hope Facebook goes back to the drawing board and reconsiders its current moderation tactics. Because its latest quest for truth is no help in the battle against misinformation — it’s a disservice to art.

Update January 16, 09:14AM UTC: An Instagram spokesperson reached out to note the independent fact-checker re-assessed its initial review and changed their rating. As a result, the image in question is no longer labelled as false. Instagram will continue to fact-check similar images, though, so the issue is far from resolved.

https://growinsta.xyz/instagrams-decision-to-hide-photoshopped-images-is-a-disservice-to-art/

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Poem of The Body Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands, all diffused—mine too diffused, Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and deliri- ous juice, Bridegroom-night of love, working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn, Undulating into the willing and yielding day, Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet- fleshed day.

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Asger Carlsen

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FEATURED ARTIST: Asger Carlsen, Wrong, 2010. Pigment Print. 50 x 60 centimeters. Courtesy the artist. 

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FEATURED ARTIST: Asger Carlsen

Asger Carlsen uses photography as a means to create sculptural work. After digitally photographing the body in various poses within the space of his studio, he edits and transforms the shape and composition of the figure to the point of abstraction. He creates mutated bodily forms, rearranging parts and inserting other objects. Often, the body becomes so abstracted that the images could be considered a photographs of an objects. The final images convey sense of gracefulness and elegance, while simultaneously provoking a visceral reaction. Without a literal depiction, he is able to use images of the body to create new forms, which then reference bodily forms.  

Carlsen was born in Denmark in 1973 and moved to New York in 2007 where he continues to live and work. He has had solo shows at V1 Gallery, Copenhagen; Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin; and Ruttkowski 68, Cologne. He has been featured in The New Yorker, Juxtapoz Magazine, and Interview Magazine, amongst others. He has an upcoming show at Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, which will open September 24. 

Asger Carlsen, Hester, 2012. Pigment Print. 60 x 70 centimeters. Courtesy the artist. 

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