Portrait on the Fly – Plotter Drawings

Christine Schöpf
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Plotter Drawings
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Erkki Huhtamo
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Frieder Nake
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Jean-Luc Soret
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Roy Ascott
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Peter Weibel
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Hannes Leopoldseder
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Oliver Grau
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Marie-Helene Tramus
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Edmond Couchot
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Christa & Laurent
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Plotter Drawings
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Chu-Yin Chen
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Self Fly Portrait
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Portrait on the Fly – Plotter Drawings
Plotter Drawings made with a Pen Plotter Printer
©2015, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer
represented by:
DAM Galerie Berlin,
Galerie Charlot Paris
Galerie Anita Beckers

Portrait on the Fly also exists in the form of a series of plotter drawing portraits on paper. Vector based drawings of digital fly portraits are drawn out on an acid free thick paper with a modern Pen Plotter similar to the ones produced in the 1960's. Ephemeral moments of interaction are thereby immortalized in the form of graphical drawings.

The first of these artworks is an auto portrait. The series includes likenesses of important media art experts, theorists and artists, such as Jeffrey Shaw, Frieder Nake, Mark Wilson, Hans Dehlinger, Edmond Couchot, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Peter Weibel, Jeffrey Shaw, Lynn Hershman, and many others. Its aim is to conserve valuable original images of the historic figures who are involved in media art. The idea of going back to a unique original image after having explored process-based and ephemeral art also relates to a fundamental problem of media art - the need to create artefacts which remain unaltered.