A Million Chairs
An archive consisting of 1 million photos was created by downloading images, tagged #chairs from INSTAGRAM in 2018.
An image recognition software is generating bounding boxes around the part of the image which is showing a chair.
„A Million Chairs“ is an homage to „One and Three Chairs“ by JOSEPH KOSUTH, 1965.
KOSUTH used a chair to show the relations between language, picture and referent.
„A million chairs“ gives a simple answer to the question: „What is a chair“?
„A chair is the part of the image, wich is marked by a colored frame“.