In
Your Face (1998)
explores perceptions of beauty and appearance, using the words that people
use to describe themselves as the basis for creating individual digital
portraits.
100 visitors to the gallery over 4 weeks filled in a questionnaire concerning
their appearance.
1. Describe your face - how you think it looks, and how you think others
see you.
2. What is your best feature?
3. If you could have painless free plastic surgery what would you change
(if anything) and why?
4. What would you consider to be beautiful in others? This could include
examples of people or features etc.
They then digitally manipulated their responses, and the resulting portraits were shown in the gallery in two ways, both as full colour transparencies and also as part of an interactive multimedia display documenting the work in progress.
In Your Face was commissioned by Broadway, Nottingham and funded by the
Arts Council new audiences fund.
Supported by Gallery of the Future, Pyramid Press, CCT Lighting, Iomega,
Hopkinsons and Kodak.
Audience
Feeback
"A fascinating collection of 'persons'. beautifully designed
and coordinated with image and text."
"It's amazing how well metaphors work to give a brilliant imagined
picture"
"Excellent images. Fantastic idea."
"this project is a welcome subversion of what is usually bland, and
unapproachable by the everyday person."
"Great use of light, good to see that the public are getting involved
in art, not just the usual clique"
"Eyecatching and beautiful"
"For someone who will stare at the monitor for an hour, wondering
why it's blank and not doing what you tell it to do, even after kicking
it, then realised you have to turn it on - I found 'In Your Face' surprisingly
easy."
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