The Living Portrait Project
Exhibtion at spring3d gallery, d.u.m.b.o. Arts Festival 2003
The Living Portrait Projectis a live photographic installation based on the Internet Portrait Project. It was developed during September 2003 and first exhibited at spring3d during the 7th annual d.u.m.b.o. arts festival. It was also later shown at the Meadowlands Expo center in collaboration with ZOOZOOM.com
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The project was setup as an automated network that allowed gallery viewers to participate in the project. An digital capture station was installed in the gallery. Here viewers could take their own photo. An ID number was automatically generated and printed as their photo was downloaded from the self-portrait photo machine. It was then relayed to a projector screen in the front of the space. For every 50 people that participated in the project, a new pixel-average portrait was generated and later printed and hung on the walls in the gallery. The project lived in the gallery for over a month and generated a database of 800 portraits, which were then compressed into 16 new composite characters, a series of contact sheets, 1 male-average portrait, one female, and the total representative image of all 800 participants.
