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How to Create Instagram Banners

When A$AP Rocky announced his new album on Instagram by uploading countless blank white photos he lost over 100,000 followers in 10 hours.

The artist wasn’t bothered by his massive loss in followers, but that’s only becauseA$AP Rocky had a much larger vision for his Instagram profile that extended past a single Instagram photo.

Instagram banners have become more popular thanks to artists such as @asvpxrocky and @micahnotfound who treat their profiles as a scrolling canvas of photos to profile their work. What was once considered disruptive has become a bit more mainstream with apps that allow individuals to create banner images on Instagram.

We found seven unique Instagram accounts of users who’ve taken their creative capability to the next level with scalable photos and artwork that look amazing on the new Instagram web layout. Take a look at how these Instagrammers create banners to showcase their artwork and photography skills.

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.@GameOfThrones in 360º by @micahnotfound & @dav_itron https://t.co/NZhpzefh9e http://pic.twitter.com/xshJrOJIP5

— allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 28, 2017

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Amazing VR artwork by @annadreambrush Check her page out for more virtual reality artwork. I didn't know it was a thing until now! • • • • • Time to unleash our #VR #tiltbrush remix. Great team: @3donimus @lizaledwards @micahnotfound @estellatse @vrhuman #starwars #starwarsfan #yoda #stormtrooper #darthvader #vrpainting #virtualpainting #virtualart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx5Ybmmg7iI/?igshid=1tp8n2s9d4sfw

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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Virtual Reality Exhibitions and Cyberdefense Workshops

The tight stuff and the right stuff at tonight’s special event with @babycastles –@di_mo_da @micahnotfound @moisesnotfound @akaprash @princessgollum and many more superstars 7-10pm Only @vrworldnyc #virtuallyexcited #actuallyexcited

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Well, this week starts off strong. Monday we’re looking forward to checking out the new VR World NYC, which is hosting a virtual reality art show and concert until midnight. If that hasn’t sated your cyberpunk hunger, check out Lin Wang’s cyborg wigs tuesday at Gallery Sensei, the NYFA/NYSCA group show Facial Profiling at C24 Gallery on Thursday, or the “Digital Self Defense and Empowerment Workshops” happening all Saturday afternoon at the New Museum. We love when a week’s itinerary in IRL New York looks like a montage from Hackers.

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VR World NYC

4 East 34th Street New York, NY 7:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m. Website

Virtual Insanity™: VR + Music

Well this is undoubtedly the coolest thing happening on a Monday night this summer. Babycastles is presenting a virtual reality art show and concert at VR World NYC.

Among the highlights is the Digital Museum of Digital Art, which Paddy and I have both experienced and raved about. It’s seriously one of the best art-viewing experiences you can have this week, so get yourself there ASAP.

Artists: Alfredo Salazar-Caro and his virtual institution Di Mo DA, Art 404, Haleek Maul, James Orlando, HYPER.ZONE, LaJuné McMillian, Michelle Cortese, Michelle Senteio, Nicole Ruggiero, Prashast Thapan

Live performances by: Icarus Moth, RAFiA, Haleek Maul

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Gallery Sensei

135 Eldridge Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website

Lin Wang: Tenant, Tranant, Trance

This show is only up for two days, a unusual duration for an installation that has to do, on some level, with time. Lin Wang’s semi-narrative installation alludes to past tenants of a surreal domestic space, which itself is somewhat anachronistic—referencing a cyborg future where the synthetic and prosthetic wait to merge with absent bodies. The artist has created a series of household appliances associated with comfort (fans, massage chairs, etc.) combined with wigs. Picture mounds of artificial hair quivering in anticipation of contact with a user. So creepy, yet so alluring.

Artists Space

55 Walker Street New York, NY 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Website

People's Cultural Plan Launch

This looks good: Mychal Johnson, community activist and member of South Bronx Unite, and artist Chloë Bass will discuss the ins and outs of the People’s Cultural Plan. It’s a grass-roots, social-justice focused alternative to the Department of Cultural Affairs’ CreateNYC plan, which launches this week. The guiding principles here are de-gentrification, cultural equity, and labor equity—three things the city desperately needs, in particular for the survival of the arts.

The event features drinks, opportunities for discussion and mingling, and translators in Chinese and Spanish. This is a great opportunity to meet other artists thinking politically and getting involved in the interrelated labor/gentrification struggles happening now in New York.

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Equity Gallery

245 Broome Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website

Liana Finck: Passing for Human

Liana Finck is the most millennial comic artist I can think of for several reasons. For one, her pen-and-ink melancholic musings on relationships, existential angst, and the never-ending stresses of being a broke 20-something are relatable and often hilarious. Also, she’s built her fan base out of her popular Instagram account. Here’s a chance to see her work (some 80 drawings!) IRL.

EFA Project Space

323 West 39th Street New York, NY 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.Website

Setting 1880-1920 / Dinner Party

Liliana Dirks-Goodman’s theatrical dinner party/lecture/performance will introduce guests to “the utopian design visions of seven first-wave white feminists” who lived in the decades surrounding the turn of the last century. This is the era when a lot of social “progressives” advocated for urban planning, design, and architectural movements intended to better the lives of the poor and immigrants. We often hear about men’s grand visions for the “city beautiful” or Garden City movements, but the fact that many of these visionaries and activists were women is often overlooked. Their different perspective was often aimed at improving the lives of women as well.

The dinner (arguably the most highly-gendered domestic social activity of the 20th Century) will be prepared by chef Kristin Worral, who will use recipes from Rumford Kitchen’s cookbook.

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MX

167 Canal Street, 5th floor New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Website

My fossil, my echo / my excess, my scrap

This exhibition is curated around the idea of anxieties related to the index.  The curatorial statement, from Gabrielle Jensen and Julia Lee, is a bit dense, but the show looks really promising. Chiefly, the concern here seems to be what becomes of an object once it is a record or fragment of itself?

I’m excited to see Carmen Neely included in this exhibition. When I met her on a studio visit years ago I was convinced she’d be an art star. Her work includes personified abstract forms that jump from piece to piece, personal objects embedded in canvases, and plenty of autobiographical ephemera worked into painterly compositions. It definitely fossilizes some weird stuff, and does it charmingly.

Artists: Cristine Brache, Isabel Legate, Carmen Neely, Kayode Ojo, Patrice Renee Washington

C24 Gallery

560 West 24th Street New York, NY 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Website

Facial Profiling

Curated by David C. Terry, this show looks at identity through the lens of seven NYSCA/NYFA Artists. The artists here touch on issues such as “the observed self, the portrayal of individuals as well as the perceived and projected self, and how we interpret/project imagery as portrait.” Included among the seven is master of selfies/constructed identity Sean Fader, so expect there to be a dash of humor among what could otherwise be heady navel gazing.

Artists: Samira Abbassy, Kwesi Abbensetts, Geoffrey Chadsey, Sean Fader, Michael Ferris Jr. , Kymia Nawabi, Oliver Wasow

Sat

New Museum

235 Bowery New York, NY 1:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Website

Digital Self-Defense and Empowerment Workshops

In conjunction with the exhibition Paul Ramírez Jonas: Half-Truths, the New Museum has teamed up with Equality Labs and NEW INC residents DATA X and Taeyoon Choi to offer an afternoon of workshops about surveillance and autonomy in the digital age. So spend a muggy Saturday nerding out to all your hacker fantasies in the New Museum’s air conditioning.

Here’s the rundown of workshops:

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Handmade Computers with Taeyoon Choi—learn how to assemble a basic computer that can perform addition, keep time, and store memory! It’s free, but requires registration by emailing season@newmuseum.org .

3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Data Selfie with DATA X—DATA X is a creative studio that believes in transparency. Here, they’ll be demonstrating their browser add-on Data Selfie, which tracks the way sites such as Facebook track your data, giving the user a peak at how corporations and their algorithms view us. Register here.

4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Digital Self-Defense with Equality Labs—Equality Labs, “a South Asian women’s, gender non-conforming, and trans tech collective” will present a workshop about protecting one’s information in the age of the surveillance state. This is pretty useful stuff as the world becomes more and more like William Gibson’s worst authoritarian nightmare. The event is limited to 30 participants, so be sure to register here ASAP.

Pine Box Rock Shop

12 Grattan St Brooklyn, NY 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Website

Meowmania! A Cat Party in Brooklyn

It is Summer in New York City, which means our art event guides tend to be a little heavier on events that are just ridiculous or activism-oriented than usual due to the dearth of art openings. This event is both.

Bring your leashed cat to partake in activities such as a cat photobooth, games, cat-themed drink specials, and a cat costume contest. The whole event is a fundraiser for local cat rescue programs, so all of this “basically internet circa 2012” style shenanigans is at least for a good cause.

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Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Website

Performance in the Park: Maren Hassinger's "Pink Trash"

As part of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Maren Hassinger will be re-staging her 1982 performance “Pink Trash” in Prospect Park. The piece was an important reflection on public space, labor, and “maintenance art”, and seeing it performed three decades later is bound to be something special.

Tickets are $25, but you get a lot of bang for your buck:

1:00 p.m. Special tour of We Wanted a Revolution and conversation with co-curator Rujeko Hockley and Maren Hassinger

2:00 p.m. Walk to Prospect Park

2:15 p.m. Performance of “Pink Trash”

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Artist Micah Milner Upped His Social Media Game to an Art Form

By Kimberly Wang

Micah Milner, a member of the New York artist collective Art404 that specializes in conceptual online art, describes himself as a “heavily-bearded designer and artist based in NYC.” He might also be better known as his Instagram handle, micahnotfound, which has been accruing legions of fans because he’s turned his feed into a tongue-in-cheek, clever, pop-culture-savvy canvas for his psychedelic designs. We caught up with the designer and self-professed “art junkie and beer enthusiast” to find out where he finds inspiration, as well as what where we can catch him next in real life.

What was the thought process that lead you into turn your Instagram feed into a scrolling piece of art? Micah Milner: Art404 had been brainstorming ways to use different social media platforms as an outlet for a singular work, and this was one of the ideas that rose to the top. Making an image out of multiple posts wasn't a new idea, but to my knowledge, no one had done it for an entire account. Additionally, the ones I had seen would break if the user didn't post pictures three in a row. Once I figured out how to make the image stay connected when just posting one at a time, I knew I was on to something. 

Where do you find your inspiration? The work stems from two places: experimentation and pop culture. The account is almost a practice field for me, since a lot of the techniques and styles are ones that I'm using for the first time. Most of the themes conceptually revolve around elements of culture that affect behavior and social norms on a large level, which is more or less the original Dawkins definition of the term "meme" before it just meant pictures of cats with text at the top and bottom.

  If you weren't a designer/visual artist, what would you be? I think about this a lot and I have no idea. When I committed to art school the what-ifs started swirling, and one of the things that I was seriously bummed about was that I wasn't going to be a commercial helicopter pilot. I have no idea how that career path even popped into my head, but it was top three in the back-up plan category for a long time.

What do you hope for your viewers to takeaway from your work? The designer in me is always concerned with the initial "wow" factor. I really want people to feel like they just saw something unlike anything they had seen previously or were expecting to see anytime soon. A lot of Art404's work is based around posing a question or presenting a subject without an intentional slant put on it, so the idea is to bring an issue to the surface and hopefully incite a visceral reaction on it one way or another.

Where do you like to go with your friends and what is your go-to drink? Barcade [in Brooklyn] is my favorite place on earth, and Jameson on the rocks is my go-to.

What can we expect to see from you next? Art404 and friends will be having a huge collective show at 41 Cooper Gallery on Tuesday, May 5. The show, entitled FRL, is centered around artworks with both physical and digital presences. One of the works I'm most excited is a virtual reality gallery that exists within a physical one that you can walk around in using Oculus Rifts. Another is a giant wall mural made up of over 300,000 Google images. The event is open to the public, so we'd love to see you there.

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Micahnotfound, el Instagram de la cultura pop

Sabemos que Instagram es mucho más que fotos de pies y #foodporn. Mujeres inspiradoras, barbas floridas, incluso bebés durmiendo la siesta pueblan la red. De vez en cuando también es fácil descubrir propuestas creativas como la de Micahnotfound, parte del colectivo artístico Art404. Basado en Nueva York, se dedican al arte conceptual, las performances o la creación de aplicaciones web interactivas, además de llevar a cabo homenajes a la cultura pop como la que podemos disfrutar en su cuenta de Instagram. Desde Padres Forzosos a Jurassic World, pasando por Darth Vader o la NBA.

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#15 - A Giant Pop Art Collage

Maybe a single post from @micahnotfound won’t look anything particular, but if you look at the big picture (really), you will find out that every single post is a piece of a big puzzle.

Micah Millner visual artist turned his entire Instagram feed into one big canvas where the individual posts together create a huge artwork. It’s basically an endless timeline of today’s pop-culture inspired by current events: movies, sports, video games, music, so you can find in the mosaic David Bowie or the Jurassic World as well.

To maximize the experience, it is recommended to visit @micahnotfound’s profile on mobile.

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[allthingsvr]

Star Wars VR Explained: A behind the scenes look at artists remixing a galaxy far, far away with @3Donimus @AnnaDreamBrush @lizaledwards @estellatse @micahnotfound and @vr_human 👉 https://t.co/6M96DMuct3 http://pic.twitter.com/QEz4ksiMCm

— allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) December 17, 2017