The MyGames project provides an ideal opportunity to generate a visual archive recording how the Games are experienced not just by those performing, but also by those watching.
The University of Bristol is calling on members of the public across the South West to help with a new research project which aims to preserve and present the most imaginative, quirky, diverse and entertaining visual responses - photos, drawings, paintings etc - to London 2012. The MyGames project aims to establish an alternative visual archive to the more formal record of this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games that is being officially collected. Anyone and everyone is invited to submit photos and other images that express their personal interaction with, or response to, the Games this summer. These could be images recording a journey to watch an event live, or documenting the experience of listening to the Games on the radio whilst mowing the lawn or being inspired to play games on a local level - or, perhaps, even ignoring the Games altogether or protesting against them. All images are welcomed and can be submitted to the MyGames website by emailing an image file as an attachment to: mygamessouthwest [a] gmail (p) com Mike O'Mahony, an art historian at the University of Bristol and leader of the project, said: "The MyGames project provides an ideal opportunity to generate a visual archive recording how the Games are experienced not just by those performing, but also by those watching. "Rather than foregrounding officially sanctioned images of the Games, the project seeks to gather a wider array of visual responses produced not by professional artists, photographers and designers, but by the general public.
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