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 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
Presented here is the temporary archive of the project while the project is rebuilt with new features that will allow the project to run autonomously on ww.transportrait.com, its future home
You can try to upload your image HERE but the upload processor is currently being rebuilt and will launch sometime in the near future.
Note: The above demo is simulated
