
A scavenger hunt is a game in which an organizer prepares a list defining specific items which the participants (as either individuals or teams) seek to gather. The goal is most often to be the first to complete the list, although in a variation on the game players can also be challenged to complete the tasks on the list in the most creative manner. Not unlike a scavenger hunt, Instagram is a portal where images are shared from our lives with a vast social network via mobil technology but where there is no list of specific things to be found. Or is it?
Always curious as to the interconnectivity of things, (for example, but not limited to how people meet and communicate) “Hunt” is a project that was recently conceived by me and Francesca Fondevila after having established a friendship thru this simple application a few months prior. It’s all about chaos vs. order, voyeurism and how we can curate from unlimited visual stimuli.
Choice blindness refers to ways in which people are blind to their own choices and preferences. The Hawthorne effect is the process where human subjects of an experiment change their behavior, simply because they are being studied. In selective group perception, people tend to actively filter information they think is irrelevant. Perhaps by introducing a control we can further investigate this phenomena in a visual landscape.
Once a month Francesca and I will contact an instagram user that is outside of our circle of friends with a list of 30 items. They will have one day to find, photograph and upload in realtime using the hash tag “#dossierhunt”. The images will then be displayed here using the same layout each time. The first of this series will be from @_metal_mouth_ whom is the aforementioned co creator for this project.
Above dead bug : string
scissors (all metal) : colored or printed sock

something broken: puddle of liquid

a heart : an alive bug

a secret : something cold

a scar : something stolen

up : down

a pencil : fruit

shaped rock : page 67 from a book

something that makes you smile : something hot
favorite word : index of a book

a fork : a cd

poem : a bruise

water : monster

something torn : a number