Free the Vaccine Snapchat filter

Objective:

To use the filter to generate awareness about Free the Vaccine and its aims. Also, to run this filter in Zoom meetings using SnapCamera (https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/) so that people would ask about the image connected to my head. This sparked many conversations about Free the Vaccine!.

The Project:

This is a Snapchat filter I created that sports the Free the Vaccine Logo as a face-tracking headband.

TRY THIS:

Use it.

Redesign it.

What worked?

This work generated a lot of questions and a lot of joy!

About this project
Creators:

April, 2020

Image/graphic, Online/web thing

United States, Brooklyn

Digital

Public Domain

Download Original/High-Resolution File: freethevaccine-Snap.gif

Other Notes:

  • A set of instructions exists on how to make this work

Links:

Reflections from Joseph Amodei

What was the process/journey of creating this work?

It was exciting to use my new media art skills to adapt an activism strategy that evolved from the situation created by the pandemic (i.e. living on Zoom).

What would be your next steps, building on this idea, if you had a million dollars and all the time and skills in the world?

I would make more filters, create them in all different languages, and publish them across a wider variety of platforms.

If someone else were going to make/use/do something like this, what advice would you give them?

This type of internet/new media work is easier to get into than one might think! Give it a try!

Respiratory Therapists for a Free Vaccine

Objective:

To get front line workers that work to save the lives of COVID-19 patients to show their support.

The Project:

A team of respiratory therapists from the hospital that recorded the first COVID-19 death in the United States, EvergreenHealth Medical Center, outside of Seattle, WA, took pictures holding signs calling for a free vaccine.

TRY THIS:

Share it on social media. #FreeTheVaccine #PeoplesVaccine

Make a version with people from your community.

What worked?

Compelling images

About this project
Creators:

April, 2020

Image/graphic

United States, Seattle

3024 x 4032 px

Public Domain

Link to Original or High-Res file

Other Notes:

Reflections from Eric Olson

What was the process/journey of creating this work?

While thinking about ways to create images of people showing their support of the Free the Vaccine campaign, a respiratory therapist friend (the people who put critical patients on respirators) told me about his recent short stories reflecting on the experience of working at the first hospital overwhelmed with COVID-19 hospitalizations and with the first recorded COVID-19 death in the United States. I later reached out to him to see if he and his colleagues would do a photoshoot and they were happy to help.