Portrait Virus
- Object:
- Place of origin:
Pasadena, United States (made)
- Date:
29/10/1992-01/11/1992 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Prince, Patric D. (curator)
Crimzon, Liz (artist)
Kaul, Paras (artist)
Pike, Tom (artist)
Reiser, Beverly (artist)
Wright, Michael (artist)
CyberArts, group (Conference) (group)
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour slide photograph in carton slide frame
- Credit Line:
Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Patric Prince
- Museum number:
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case PAT, shelf 5
- Image unavailable
The inaugural Portrait Virus event, curated by Patric D. Prince, took place at Cyberarts, Pasadena Convention Centre, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 1992. The event was organised to create digital portraits via a computer network.
The Amiga computer system, operated by Michael Wright, was established as the first link of the network and was used to scan in black and white portraits of participants in real time.
Next file formats containing portrait data were converted to Macintosh file formats and transferred to a second link, a Mac workstation. Artist Liz Crimzon, painted backgrounds for the portraits,
A second Macintosh, linked to the first Mac by an internal network, was operated by Paras Kaul who sent the computer enhanced portraits by modem from a phone line at the Convention Centre to Paras Productions in Washington, D. C.
At this location computer graphic campaign buttons for the democratic party were added.
Portraits were then sent back to the Amiga workstation which was connected to a 16 monitor video wall at the Convention Centre where they were viewed by Cyberarts participants.
Physical description
This slide sits in a carton slide frame, carrying printed inscriptions.
Place of Origin
Pasadena, United States (made)
Date
29/10/1992-01/11/1992 (made)
Artist/maker
Prince, Patric D. (curator)
Crimzon, Liz (artist)
Kaul, Paras (artist)
Pike, Tom (artist)
Reiser, Beverly (artist)
Wright, Michael (artist)
CyberArts, group (Conference) (group)
Materials and Techniques
Colour slide photograph in carton slide frame
Marks and inscriptions
"Kodachrome / Professional / film processing by / A&I "
Dimensions
Length: 5.1 cm, Width: 5.1 cm
Object history note
The inaugural Portrait Virus event, curated by Patric D. Prince, took place at Cyberarts, Pasadena Convention Centre, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 1992. The event was organised to create digital portraits via a computer network.
The Amiga computer system, operated by Michael Wright, was established as the first link of the network and was used to scan in black and white portraits of participants in real time.
Next file formats containing portrait data were converted to Macintosh file formats and transferred to a second link, a Mac workstation. Artist Liz Crimzon, painted backgrounds for the portraits,
A second Macintosh, linked to the first Mac by an internal network, was operated by Paras Kaul who sent the computer enhanced portraits by modem from a phone line at the Convention Centre to Paras Productions in Washington, D. C.
At this location computer graphic campaign buttons for the democratic party were added.
Portraits were then sent back to the Amiga workstation which was connected to a 16 monitor video wall at the Convention Centre where they were viewed by Cyberarts participants.
Descriptive line
Colour Slide, documentation of the event / exhibition, 'Portrait Virus', curated by Patric Prince for CyberArts, Pasadena Convention Centre, 1992.
Materials
Reversal film
Techniques
Slide photography
Categories
Photographs
Collection code
PDP
