Internet Portrait Project
I created The Internet Portrait project in 2003 as an interactive art project to be exhibited on ZOOZOOM.com. The goal of the project was to introduce the idea of an interactive and narrative image that reflects the participating audience of a website and to challenge the conventional idea of a photographic portrait.
The popularity of digital photography during that year had created an abundance of image makers and made me wonder if media creation was going to overshadow media consumption. I envisioned The Internet Portrait Project as a way to counter this force and presented a portrait "worth a thousand pictures". The project was built using Flash and PHP and was exhibited exclusively online. In the fall it was adapted for a gallery exhibition titled The Living Portrait in the 2003 d.u.m.b.o. arts festival.
The Internet Portrait interactive presentation was selected by Macromedia (now Adobe) for a student innovator award in 2003
The project is currently being rebuilt at http://www.transportrait.com, its future home.
The popularity of digital photography during that year had created an abundance of image makers and made me wonder if media creation was going to overshadow media consumption. I envisioned The Internet Portrait Project as a way to counter this force and presented a portrait "worth a thousand pictures". The project was built using Flash and PHP and was exhibited exclusively online. In the fall it was adapted for a gallery exhibition titled The Living Portrait in the 2003 d.u.m.b.o. arts festival.
The Internet Portrait interactive presentation was selected by Macromedia (now Adobe) for a student innovator award in 2003
The project is currently being rebuilt at http://www.transportrait.com, its future home.