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Print - Portrait Virus

Portrait Virus

  • Object:

    Print

  • Place of origin:

    Pasadena, USA (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:

    Inkjet print on paper

  • Credit Line:

    Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Patric Prince

  • Museum number:

    E.987:2-2008

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case PAT, shelf 5

  • Image in copyright

This is the title page for a portfolio of information about the Portrait Virus event. The portfolio includes the following text description of the project:

"The inaugural PORTRAIT VIRUS event took place at CYBERARTS, Pasadena Convention Center, 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 Center 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 Center where they were viewed by CYBERARTS participants."

Physical description

Black inkjet print of title of the exhibition and year, on white paper:

CYBER ARTS / INTERNATIONAL / 1992 / PORTRAIT VIRUS

Place of Origin

Pasadena, USA (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

Inkjet print on paper

Marks and inscriptions

'CYBER ARTS / INTERNATIONAL / 1992 / PORTRAIT VIRUS'

Dimensions

Length: 28 cm, Width: 21.7 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

Inkjet print, part of Portfolio of a documentation of the event / exhibition, 'Portrait Virus', curated by Patric Prince for CyberArts, Pasadena Convention Centre, 1992.

Materials

Paper; Ink

Techniques

Inkjet printing

Categories

Prints; Printed pages & sheets

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O239556
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