Clicking photographs of beautiful places while roaming around tourist spots becomes difficult when people come in between. The best-captured images sometimes get ruined by unwanted people. With Bye Bye Camera app this is not an issue anymore as it removes all the humans from images you capture leaving dogs intact.
Bye Bye Camera app is a practical art project which has been developed by the good people of Do Something Good and launched by the artist who goes by the title Damjanski. ‘Do Something Good’ was started a few years back by Damjanski. It is a collective of 16 people from different fields who collaborated with each other on different projects. Bye Bye Camera project is the creation of Damjanski and his long-time collaborators from Russia Andrej and Pavel.
Bye Bye Camera uses Artificial Intelligence tools which are already being used by others. This app utilizes the functionality of an image recognition app called Yolo and further combines it to a neural network which analyses the background elements in the image and fills up the gaps once the person is removed.
The artist, Damjanski, has worked on multiple digital projects, for example, CAPTCHA. In short, it is one of the most recognized projects which exclude humans and sets up a dialogue between two agents. “This app is for the post-human era that takes out the vanity of any selfie and also the person,” Damjanski said
Damjanski became a familiar name in the society of traditional artists when a collective of eight internet artists transformed the Jackson Pollock room in the New York City Museum of Modern Art into an augmented reality gallery without taking the museum’s permission. With the use of augmented reality, these eight artists calling themselves as MoMAR overlaid their work on top of seven Jackson Pollock paintings. Anyone with the smartphone could see their work by downloading the MoMAR app. Damjanski says MoMAR is “an unauthorized gallery concept aimed at democratizing physical exhibition spaces, museums, and the curation of art within them.”
Besides, the photos taken from this app are very strange and often remind us of Lewis Baltz. Baltz used to create photographs of generic office parks with complete vacant space and no human. Basically, the app was designed to capture the post-human scenes by wiping all the humans in the photograph and not just the ones sneaking into it. This app is available on the iOS App Store for USD 2.99. User reviews for this app in the App Store are not very satisfactory, thus, developers should identify the glitch and add an update to it.