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In 1975, NASA began its Viking Project, launching a Mars bound spacecraft.
In 1975 Spain broadcast the cartoon series Vickie the Viking began.
In 1975, the popular imagination developed the myth of Iberian hordes of Viking invaders in bikini vulnerable Mediterranean coasts.
This extraordinary combination of circumstances unevenly influenced several generations of Spaniards, some of whom decided, in the summer of 2013, relaunch # vikingproject two new probes, to Norway, smartphone equipped with powerful weapons, whose main mission is bombarded images of each other experiences, more or less sublime, the mythical # Guiriland.
Immediately, his private war would become universal, using the most fearsome weapon of mass consumption of images ever imagined: # instagram.
Now the festival La Mar de Músicas, organized by the municipality of Cartagena, this project gets on her special Norway.
The social network Instagram has gone quickly from a modest mobile application to a powerful social network to share photos of well over 100 million active Igers worldwide.
The ease of use and support hundreds of applications and the progressive improvement of camera devices, have almost become a new way of seeing the world, almost a new category in the world of Photography.
The # vikingproject arose spontaneously during a trip to Norway two groups of friends who regularly use their mobile cameras and mobile devices domestically, no purpose beyond the contact images.
Many of them were uploaded to Instagram, you adding that tag.
Best photos made ​​by Norway and climbed instagram M ª del Mar Florenciano, José Francisco López, and José Moisés Ruiz Soto occurred to hang in the gallery of Cartagena La Ventana de Gras.
This show is not to be more than a little, or maybe not, testimony of that process, which began and ended in Instagram 10 months ago (which can be visited under the hashtag # vikingproject), and also be a small example of what is moves around the network, all as a kind of epiphany boreal somewhat Martian and unpretentious, the Norwegian lands.
The exhibition will be open until stocks Instagram with the hashtag # vikingproject and
in the gallery's window Gras until 31 August.
Opens today Thursday, July 17 at 19:30 pm in Cartagena gallery.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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