PORTRAIT ON THE FLY – INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION BY (COLLECTIVE) SOMMERER / MIGNONNEAU - ADA

Keywords

aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
- anamorphic
- animated
- anthropomorph
- assembled
- automated
- autopoietic
- collaborative
- contextual
- cybernetic
- disgusting
- documenting
- duplicated
- dynamic system
- ephemeral
- experimental
- found object
- generative
- gustatory
- hypermediacy
- illusionary
- immaterial
- immersive
- installation-based
- interactive
- intermedial
- intervention
- mobile
- modular
- multi-user
- multiple
- narrative
- navigable
- networked
- olfactory
- panoramatic
- performative
- polysensory
- processual
- projected
- real-time
- remediated
- remixed
- sculptural
- site-specific
- sonification
- sublime
- tactile
- telematic
- three-dimensional
- time-based
- uncanny
- virtual
- visual
genre
- Bio Art
  - Genetic Art
  - Transgenic Art
- Database Art
- Digital Activism
- Digital Animation
- Digital Community (Social Network)
- Digital Graphics
- Game Art
- Glitch Art
- Hybrid Art
- Installation
  - augmented reality
  - interactive installation
  - mixed reality
  - performative installation
  - sound installation
  - virtual reality
    - 360° virtual walktrough
- Nano Art
- Net Art
- Performance
  - Computer performance
  - Happening
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  - sound performance
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- Telematic Art
subject
- ART AND SCIENCE
  - algorithm
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Technology
- Display
  - Electronic displays
    - BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
    - CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
    - computer monitor
    - dome
    - Electromechanical Display Device
    - Electronic Paper
    - flashlight
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    - Headphones
    - HMD (Head-mounted Display)
    - holography
    - laser
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    - lightbox
    - plasma
    - printer
    - projection screen
    - projector
    - robotic
    - speakers
    - VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
    - VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
  - Non-electronic displays
    - body
    - Book
    - easel painting
    - globe
    - house wall
    - inflatable structure
    - mirror
    - paper
    - sculpture
    - shutter glasses
    - sofa
    - Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
    - table
- Hardware
  - camera
  - computer mouse
  - data glove
  - Joystick
  - MAC
  - Mobile Device
  - multi touchscreen
  - plotter
  - scanner
  - touchscreen
  - Video
  - Virtual Workbench
  - Virtuscope
  - webcam
- Interface
  - Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
  - biometrics
  - Body sensor
    - Body Tracking
    - brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
    - breathing sensor
    - Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
    - Endoscope
    - eye scanner
    - facial recognition system
    - Motion Capture
    - positiontracker
    - retina scanner
    - Speech Recognition
    - step sensor
  - camera recording
  - electromagnetism
  - interactive media
    - Auditory User Interface (AUI)
    - Augmented Reality Interfaces
    - breath based communication
    - Internet of Things (IoT)
    - Ludic Interface
    - MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
    - Multi-Modal Interaction
    - tactile user interfaces
    - Tangible Acoustic Interface
    - Tangible User Interface (TUI)
    - Voice User interface
  - Non-electronic interface
    - bike
    - doll
    - furniture
    - plant
  - Soundgenerating device
    - Audiotape
    - keyboard
    - microphone
    - musical instrument
    - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
    - Speech Recognition
    - syntheziser
    - telephone
    - Theremin
    - turntable
    - voice analysis
    - Voice User Interface (VUI)
  - virtual balance
- Software
  - C++
  - CGI/Perl
  - CSS
  - Global Positioning System (GPS)
  - ISDN
  - Java
  - Linux
  - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  - periscope
  - PHP
  - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
  - robotic interfaces
  - SGI Onyx2
  - softimage
  - software interface
  - Video
  - VRML
  - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
  - XML

Information

(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau >

»Portrait on the Fly – Interactive Installation«, 2015 - 2015

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/artworks/PortraitOnTheFly-Interactive/PortraitOnTheFly.html

Cite

Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau - »Portrait on the Fly – Interactive Installation«”. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/portrait-on-the-fly-interactive.html (retrieved 2020-02-12). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau - »Portrait on the Fly – Interactive Installation«}, url = {https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/portrait-on-the-fly-interactive.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2020-02-12}

Technology

Hardware

TV monitor screen (43” to 75” monitor screen)
Video camera
Computer

Interface

Camera
TV monitor screen

Software

Thousands of Flies form the contour of a user placed in front of the screen
The fly motif come from a photo of a real fly

Descriptions & Essays

Christa Sommerer 29-11-2020
Portrait on the Fly
an interactive installation
© 2015, Laurent MIGNONNEAU & Christa SOMMERER
represented by:
DAM Galerie Berlin,
Galerie Charlot Paris
GPL contemporary Vienna

The interactive installation consists of a monitor that shows a swarm of a few thousand flies. When a person positions himself in front of the monitor, the insects builds up the contour of the person. They begin to arrange and rearange themselves continously, thereby creating a recognizable likeness of the individual..

Posing in front of the monitor attracts the flies. Within seconds they invade the face, but even the slightest movement of the head or of parts of the face drives them off. The portraits are thus in constant flux, they construct and deconstruct. Portrait on the Fly is a commentary on our love for making pictures of ourselves (Selfie-Culture), it has to do with change, transience and impermanence.

Christa Sommerer: Portrait on the Fly – Interactive Installation, 29-11-2020, in: Archive of Digital Art

Exhibitions & Events

2020

Exhibition :

»Parallel Worlds: Art, Science & Fiction«

Kunstmuseum Celle

2020

Exhibition :

»HYUNDAI X ELEKTRA: METAMORPHOSIS«

Hyundai Motorstudio

2019

Exhibition :