Fly Portraits - Digital Prints

Portrait on the Fly - Portrait Series

© 2015, Laurent MIGNONNEAU & Christa Sommerer

 

Portrait on the Fly - Digital Prints

A single photography of a real fly is used as printed dots to represent the portrait of media artists, writers and curators we encountered physically over a period of 4 years. Some of the portraits seen below have been printed and framed to show at exhibition venues and galeries.


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Portrait on the Fly - Digital Prints Exhibitions

2024 The Artwork as a Living System at the Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao (February 7th until  May 26th, 2024)
Retrospective
exhibition Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
Curators: Karin Ohlenschläger
Featuring "Interactive Plant Growing", "A-Volve", "Phototropy", "Life Writer", "Mobile Feelings II", "Portrait on the Fly", "Haze Express", "Eau de Jardin", "People on the Fly", "Fly Plotter Portraits", "Digital Fly Portraits", "Scavengers", "The Value of Art", "Fly Objects", "Ar(t)chive", and "ToBee"
Co-production in collaboration with the ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE) and the OÖ Landes-Kultur, Linz (AT)
- Bilbao, Spain

2022 OK Zentrum Linz "The Artwork as a Living System"
Retrospective exhibition (2nd September 2022 - 26th Feb 2023)
Featuring "Interactive Plant Growing", "A-Volve", "Phototropy", "Life Writer", "Life Spacies II", "Mobile Feelings II", "Portrait on the Fly", "Haze Express", "Eau de Jardin", "People on the Fly", "Fly Plotter Portraits", "Digital Fly Portraits", "Scavengers", "The Value of Art", "Fly Objects", "Anthroposcope", "Antopolis", "Ar(t)chive", and "ToBee".

2022 ZKM Retrospective "The Artwork as a Living System"
Retrospective exhibition (Sat, 07.May.2022 – Sun, 31.July.2022)
The interactive installations in the exhibition tell the story of almost 30 years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.
Based on an idea of Karin Ohlenschläger.
The exhibition is a co-production of ZKM | Karlsruhe, OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, Linz and iMal, Brussels. The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly publication in English edited by Karin Ohlenschläger, Peter Weibel and Alfred Weidinger in the Leonardo Book Series in collaboration with MIT Press.
Featuring "Interactive Plant Growing", "A-Volve", "Phototropy", "Life Writer", "Life Spacies II", "Mobile Feelings II", "Portrait on the Fly", "Haze Express", "Eau de Jardin", "People on the Fly", "Fly Plotter Portraits", "Digital Fly Portraits", "Scavengers", "The Value of Art", "Fly Objects", "Ar(t)chive", and "ToBee".
- Karlsruhe, Germany

2019 Solo Show at BEALL Art Center
PDF press kit about the show
Feb. 8, 2019 - May 2019
Curator: David Familian
We show: Fly Simulator, Neuro Mirror, Portrait on the Fly, Interactive Plant Growing, Noise and Smoke, Fly Portraits (of Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel, Christiane Paul, Lynn Hershman, Erkki Huhtamo, David Familian, Roy Ascott and Christa&Laurent Self Portrait)
- Irvine, CA, USA

2018 Arsenal Contemporary Art Museum
BIAN INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ART BIENNIAL (BIAN) & ELEKTRA
Curator: Alain Thibault
The 4th edition of BIAN takes place from June 29 to August 05 2018
Sommerer and Mignonneau show 4 printed fly portraits and the interactive version of "Portrait on the Fly"
- Montreal, Canada

2017 Ars Electronica Festival 2017
Exhibition: 7th - 11th September 2017
Featuring: "People on the Fly"
Represented by: Galerie Charlot
- Linz, Austria

2016 Digital Now - Tekniska Museet Stockholm
(26 October 2016 - 31 January 2017)
Curated by Min-Jung Jonsson
Featuring "Portrait on the Fly" interactive
and photographic works
- Stockholm, Sweden