Untitled (Stella) from The Library of Human Hard Copy
Photograph
1984 (made)
1984 (made)
Artist/Maker | |
Place of origin |
Jeremy Gardiner studied at Newcastle University, then the Royal College of Art from 1980 to 1983. He also undertook a computer graphics course at Middlesex Polytechnic, sponsored by General Electric. Whilst at the RCA, Gardiner used a computer to create vector graphics and plotter drawings that formed the basis for larger paintings and graphite drawings. His RCA degree show was a great success, and one of the paintings was bought for the Government Art Collection.
This is one of a set of four images of Stella Orsini, created in 1984 while Gardiner was a Harkness Fellow in the Visible Language Workshop (VLW) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The VLW had been co-founded by Muriel Cooper and Ron MacNeil a decade earlier, in 1975. When Gardiner arrived, it was in the process of becoming part of MIT’s newly-established Media Lab, launched by Nicholas Negroponte.
Gardiner used the Visible Language Workshop’s SYS graphics computer system to create the four images: “Whilst I was at MIT, Stella Orsini was writing her thesis about how artists were using computers creatively. She was based in the VLW and I made a series of portraits of her, combining images of her face with pictures from Gray’s Anatomy. I created a four-panel portrait, which depicts her face frozen by a flash and then peeled away slowly to reveal the musculature beneath.”
This is one of a set of four images of Stella Orsini, created in 1984 while Gardiner was a Harkness Fellow in the Visible Language Workshop (VLW) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The VLW had been co-founded by Muriel Cooper and Ron MacNeil a decade earlier, in 1975. When Gardiner arrived, it was in the process of becoming part of MIT’s newly-established Media Lab, launched by Nicholas Negroponte.
Gardiner used the Visible Language Workshop’s SYS graphics computer system to create the four images: “Whilst I was at MIT, Stella Orsini was writing her thesis about how artists were using computers creatively. She was based in the VLW and I made a series of portraits of her, combining images of her face with pictures from Gray’s Anatomy. I created a four-panel portrait, which depicts her face frozen by a flash and then peeled away slowly to reveal the musculature beneath.”
Object details
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Object type | |
Title | Untitled (Stella) from The Library of Human Hard Copy (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | C-type photograph |
Brief description | C-type photograph, 'Untitled (Stella) from The Library of Human Hard Copy', by Jeremy Gardiner, 1984. |
Physical description | C-type photograph |
Dimensions |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Library of Human Hard Copy' (Embossed circular stamp with embossed text in lower right side.) |
Credit line | Given by Jeremy Gardiner |
Subjects depicted | |
Summary | Jeremy Gardiner studied at Newcastle University, then the Royal College of Art from 1980 to 1983. He also undertook a computer graphics course at Middlesex Polytechnic, sponsored by General Electric. Whilst at the RCA, Gardiner used a computer to create vector graphics and plotter drawings that formed the basis for larger paintings and graphite drawings. His RCA degree show was a great success, and one of the paintings was bought for the Government Art Collection. This is one of a set of four images of Stella Orsini, created in 1984 while Gardiner was a Harkness Fellow in the Visible Language Workshop (VLW) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The VLW had been co-founded by Muriel Cooper and Ron MacNeil a decade earlier, in 1975. When Gardiner arrived, it was in the process of becoming part of MIT’s newly-established Media Lab, launched by Nicholas Negroponte. Gardiner used the Visible Language Workshop’s SYS graphics computer system to create the four images: “Whilst I was at MIT, Stella Orsini was writing her thesis about how artists were using computers creatively. She was based in the VLW and I made a series of portraits of her, combining images of her face with pictures from Gray’s Anatomy. I created a four-panel portrait, which depicts her face frozen by a flash and then peeled away slowly to reveal the musculature beneath.” |
Collection | |
Accession number | E.520-2010 |
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Record created | June 3, 2010 |
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