Portrait of Patric Prince
Print
1991 (made)
1991 (made)
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This is a digital portrait of Patric Prince, the American art historian and collector of computer art, by the artist Michael Ragsdale Wright.
Patric Prince was responsible for organising a number of key computer art exhibitions, including the SIGGRAPH Art Show retrospective in 1986. She has also written and lectured extensively on the subject. Patric donated her computer art collection - including this portrait - to the American Friends of the V&A.
Michael Wright is a painter who began to explore digital media in the mid 1980s on an Amiga computer. He exhibited his first digital prints in 1989. The artist has stated that:
" I'm not computer literate in classic sense of programing. I'm computer literate in the current sense of a user. I use the computer as an artistic tool, similar to a brush, to realize, explore and create imagery that has continued to interest me as an artist throughout my professional career, water, light, relationships, family and the portrait as representing mans struggle for spiritual freedom. I see the digital image as soft and as deconstructed information. I see the output process much like printmaking..."
Patric Prince, Michael Wright and a number of other artists subsequently collaborated in a multimedia work entitled "The Portrait Virus", presented at "CyberArts 3" in Pasadena in 1992. Video-captured portraits by Wright were passed electronically from artist to artist, with each of them doing some manipulation of the images.
Patric Prince was responsible for organising a number of key computer art exhibitions, including the SIGGRAPH Art Show retrospective in 1986. She has also written and lectured extensively on the subject. Patric donated her computer art collection - including this portrait - to the American Friends of the V&A.
Michael Wright is a painter who began to explore digital media in the mid 1980s on an Amiga computer. He exhibited his first digital prints in 1989. The artist has stated that:
" I'm not computer literate in classic sense of programing. I'm computer literate in the current sense of a user. I use the computer as an artistic tool, similar to a brush, to realize, explore and create imagery that has continued to interest me as an artist throughout my professional career, water, light, relationships, family and the portrait as representing mans struggle for spiritual freedom. I see the digital image as soft and as deconstructed information. I see the output process much like printmaking..."
Patric Prince, Michael Wright and a number of other artists subsequently collaborated in a multimedia work entitled "The Portrait Virus", presented at "CyberArts 3" in Pasadena in 1992. Video-captured portraits by Wright were passed electronically from artist to artist, with each of them doing some manipulation of the images.
Object details
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| Title | Portrait of Patric Prince (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour inkjet print on paper |
| Brief description | Colour inkjet print, 'Portrait of Patric Prince', by Michael Wright, 1991. |
| Physical description | This colour inkjet print shows a portrait of Patric Prince, facing to the right of the image and wearing a cap or hat. Signed and dated by the artist, in black. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Michael Wright '91' (Signed and dated by the artist.) |
| Credit line | Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Patric Prince |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | This is a digital portrait of Patric Prince, the American art historian and collector of computer art, by the artist Michael Ragsdale Wright. Patric Prince was responsible for organising a number of key computer art exhibitions, including the SIGGRAPH Art Show retrospective in 1986. She has also written and lectured extensively on the subject. Patric donated her computer art collection - including this portrait - to the American Friends of the V&A. Michael Wright is a painter who began to explore digital media in the mid 1980s on an Amiga computer. He exhibited his first digital prints in 1989. The artist has stated that: " I'm not computer literate in classic sense of programing. I'm computer literate in the current sense of a user. I use the computer as an artistic tool, similar to a brush, to realize, explore and create imagery that has continued to interest me as an artist throughout my professional career, water, light, relationships, family and the portrait as representing mans struggle for spiritual freedom. I see the digital image as soft and as deconstructed information. I see the output process much like printmaking..." Patric Prince, Michael Wright and a number of other artists subsequently collaborated in a multimedia work entitled "The Portrait Virus", presented at "CyberArts 3" in Pasadena in 1992. Video-captured portraits by Wright were passed electronically from artist to artist, with each of them doing some manipulation of the images. |
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| Accession number | E.1020-2008 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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