“Images are mediations between man and world. ‘Man “ek-sists,” which means that he has no immediate access to the world. Images are meant to render the world accessible and imaginable to man. But, even as they do so, they interpose themselves between man and the world. They are meant to be maps, and they become screens. Instead of presenting the world to man, they re-present it, put themselves in place of the world, to the extent that man lives as a function of the images he has produced. He no longer deciphers them, but projects them back into the world “out there” without having deciphered them. The world becomes image-like, a context of scenes and situations. This reversal of the function of images may be called “idolatry,” and we can currently see how this comes about: omnipresent technical images have begun magically to restructure “reality” into an image-like scenario. What is involved here is a kind of oblivion. Man forgets that he produces images in order to find his way in the world; he now tries to find his way in images. He no longer deciphers his own images, but lives in their function. Imagination has become hallucination.” - Excerpt from Towards a philosophy of photography by Vilém Flusser We have arrived at a paradox regarding the image, our images, those which unfurl upon and invade our daily life — images whose proliferation, it should be noted, is potentially infinite, whereas the extension of meaning is always limited precisely by its end, by its finality: from the fact that images ultimately have no finality and proceed by total contiguity, infinitely multiplying themselves according to an irresistible epidemic process which no one today can control, our world has become truly infinite, or rather exponential by means of images. It is caught up in a mad pursuit of images, in an ever greater fascination which is only accentuated by video and digital images. We have thus come to the paradox that these images describe the equal impossibility of the real and of the imaginary. - Excerpt from The evil demon of images by Jean Baudrillard – from this came their urge to destroy the images – - Excerpt from Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations We are bombarded with images. The image is everywhere.

In our sleep our mind tries to make sense of the visual and emotional impressions we have experienced.

Through our screens we perceive the world and all that is in it. We are hypnotized by the screen's glow like rabbits.

Feed-me-Fotos is a Pacman chasing image overload.

Ours is an age of visualization and perception. Looking and being looked at. The speed at which this is happening makes us numb. We are fed images at a constant rate and we devour them, always hungry — in doing so, we continuously distance ourselves from our own reality. Advertising, war, movies, photographs, CCTV, satellites, x-rays, porn, art, photoshop, jpegs, gifs, psds, pdfs, Google, social networks, archives, xeroxes, video games, consoles, simulators, 3D, photographing photographs....

Feed-me-Fotos is fascinated with image waste product. The image you would otherwise throw away, delete, is valuable to us.

We want to visualize the unseen in this constant cycle of image bombardment. We want to devaluate the image and free up peoples' retinas. Our curiosity is with the image as discarded, insignificant, refuse matter.

Instead of deleting the "bad" or "failed" images on your computer, mobile device or cell phone, we want you to upload them to Feed-me-Fotos.

We want you to fill our grid with images. We want to create a cycle of surplus images that are coming and going, appearing and disappearing, materializing and disintegrating, floating in and out of virtual space; a Flux of digitized images. We don't need your beautiful images, we only need images; the kind no one else would want or care for.

We hope to create awareness and spark new discussions, new ways of thinking about images, how we interact with them, and why we seem to need more and more of them in this ever more digitized, virtual world.