However, 99.9% of our lives go undocumented because these moments seem too mundane or ordinary to be worthy of documentation.
My co-creator and I created minutiae, an app the “forces” you to document these moments - before it’s too late.
This is how it works: Once a day at the exact same minute all participants around the world receive a daily alert. At the alert, you have one minute to capture whatever is in front of you there and then. The result is thousands of complete strangers capturing ordinary moments of their life at the exact same time together creating a global ritual of self-documentation.
Once you have captured your moment you have a one-minute window to view your own timeline of previously taken photos or with the tap of a button get matched with a complete stranger. The experience offers a highly intimate view into a stranger’s life before the app closes down and the process is repeated again the following day at a different minute.
The project continues for 1440 days until every single minute in a day has been captured creating a highly unique journal of what really happened in life as opposed to what we tend to remember. The project has been called:
Wired Magazine: “The curious app the captures your unfiltered life” Financial Times: “Anti-social photo app offers Antidote to Facebook and Instagram”
Minutiae is 100% artist-led and created by photographer Martin Adolfsson and neuroscientist Daniel J Wilson the app was built by the developer studio UsTwo. First released in the App Store in 2017 with the Android version released in June 2021.
