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Jasia REICHARDT
London
United Kingdom
THE CHANGING FACE OF ELECTRONIC PORTRAITS
Invited Plenary Lecture at the
15th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
(EMCSR 2000)
Traditionally, the idea of a portrait is to represent the sitter as
closely and completely as possible. One would imagine that electronic
portraits could achieve this with an even greater precision with
images in motion and with sound. Presenting the sitter through time,
through multiple filters and a variety of contexts should provide
more information. However, electronic artists have defied our expect-
ations and escaped the accepted canon of portraiture. They have
subverted their subject matter and reinvented the very people they
portray. They have merged reality with fiction and combined analysis
with fantasy, leaving the viewers to wonder what it is precisely that
they are looking at.
"The changing face ..." is a talk by Jasia Reichardt illustrated with
slides, music, video and CD-ROM. It deals with the aspects of
electronic portraiture since the 1960s
self portraits
talking portraits
portraits of people that don`t exist
unrecognizable portraits
future portraits.
Artists discussed include: Roy Ascott, Gary Hill, Lei Cox, Yasumasa
Morimura, Markus Kaech, David Perrett, Richard Kriesche, Marty
St.James, Daisuke Furuike, Fumio Hara, Irfan Essa, Luc Courchesne,
Joan Pueyo, and Patrice Caire.
Zeit: Freitag, 28.April 2000, 9:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: Hoersaal 47 im Hauptgebaeude der Universitaet Wien,
Dr.Karl Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Wien
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
o.Univ.-Prof.Dr.Robert Trappl