Portrait on the Fly – Video Portraits

Portrait on the Fly - Video Portraits
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Portrait on the Fly - Video Portraits
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Portrait on the Fly - Video Portraits
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Portrait on the Fly - Video Portraits
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Portrait on the Fly – Video Portraits
©2015, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer
represented by:
DAM Galerie Berlin,
Galerie Charlot Paris
GPL contemporary Vienna

This is an ongoing digital archive which consists of short video sequences where the moving portraits of well-known media art pioneers, scholars, artists, theorist, gallerist and organizers are turned into swarms of flies.

It is a personal collection of fly portraits of our peers who shape and have shaped the field of media art. It is our personal homage to our friends and colleages and a celebration of the archivist's melancholic understanding that not everything can be saved. Torn between knowing that media art is a form of art that is linked to decay and destruction, this work also envisions a format that can survive longer.

Video Fly Portraits of:

Chu-Yin Chen
Marie-Hélène Tramus
Edmond Couchot
Jean-Luc Soret
Valerie Hasson Benilouch
Gebhard Sengmüller
Christine Schöpf
Hannes Leopoldseder
Olive Grau
Frider Nake
Hans Dehlinger
Mark Wilson
Wolfgang Lieser
Gerfried Stocker
Georg Peithner Lichtenfels
Anita Beckers
Antoinette Aeroldi
Dirk Maas
Peter Weibel
Gregory Garvey
Christiane Paul
Jill Scott
Maurice Benayoun
Paul Thomas
Thecla Schiphorst
Dominique Moulon
Ellen Pau
Peter D'agostino
Rebecca Allen
Simon Biggs
Nina Czegledy
Paul Sermon
Sarah Diamond
Yara Guasque
Hiroshi Ishii
Erkki Huhtamo
Maria Grazia Mattei
Jadwiga Charzynska
Ryszard Kluszczynski
Annick Bureaud
Michel Bret
Alain Lioret
Machiko Kusahara
Tomoe Moriyama
Jean Louis Boissier
Anne Marie Duguet
Stahl Stenslie
Derrick De Kerckhove
Philip Dean
Jeffrey Shaw
Jens Hauser
Victoria Vesna
Sabine Himmelsbach
Roger Malina
Maria-Jose MartinezDe Pison Ramon
Diego Diaz
Clara Boj
Peter Bosch
Lynn Herhman Leeson