Art

That is the creepiest and most accurate way to put it. For the project “Scotch Broom” for Fillip Magazine, the “new media” artist David Horvitz went around Vancouver photographing notable locations, subtly including himself (or parts of himself, like a pointing hand) in the shot. Then he added the pics to the appropriate Wikipedia pages. Some got removed, some got cropped, but some (like the above pic of a sign at the 9 O’Clock Gun, or a shot of the Japadog food cart) still show plenty of Horvitz.

Wikipedia has official standards for how much photographers can insert themselves, or anything else irrelevant, into pictures, so Horvitz has to walk a fine line and figure out just how much of himself is too much. He’s intentionally revealing the nuances of interpreting Wikipedia rules, and also just having a little fun fucking with the internet. Which is of course the part that we like.