The #Rebel Selves Smartphone App is designed to make selfies glitchy and fun. It was created by Charlotte Roe, an artist based in Huddersfield, and Dr Dawn Woolley, an artist and research fellow at Leeds Arts University, with support from a Leeds Arts University and the HE Innovation Fund.

Dawn researches social networking sites and selfies. Because it is difficult to achieve beauty ideals, selfie taking can cause low self-esteem and body image issues. The app is one of the creative approaches she is developing to challenge gender and beauty ideals and reduce these risks.

To launch the app and share her important research, she is running Release Your Inner Rebel Selfie Competition to find the most creative images that can be produced using the app.

The Release Your Inner Rebel Selfie Competition is free and very easy to enter. Participants create selfies using the app http://www.rebelselves.com and either add them to the gallery page labelled with their Instagram account, send them to rebelselves@gmail.com or tag @rebelselves on Instagram and use #rebelselfie tag in the post.

Winning entries will be shared online and exhibited in a poster exhibition around Leeds (Sponsorship kindly provided by Pop Art).

Dawn is running some free online workshops to introduce the competition and the app. Please go to the direct link to find out more and sign up to the workshops.