User:Wish you were here project

Wish...You Were Here, began as the art project 'Viewing Spaces', first created in August 2011 by three exchange students at SCA (Sydney College of the Arts), in Sydney, Australia. The project began by the group of artists becoming disenchanted by their generation's unending cycle of taking photographs only to put them onto the internet where thousands of similar copies already exist. With these uploaded photographs only spurring on the cycle, the artists wanted to make people pause, reflect, and really experience the places they visited. From the beginning point of Wish...You Were Here, from a social experiment carried out at The University of Sydney Open Day, the project has developed into the virtual world. Now on Facebook, Youtube, Tumble and Wikipedia, the artists have documented their 'experiences' of their time on exchange.