Portrait on the Fly –
Video Portraits

©2015, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer

represented by:
DAM Galerie Berlin,
Galerie Charlot Paris
GPL contemporary Vienna

Cutout Sequence of the video

Cutout Sequence of the video

Portrait on the Fly – Video Portraits

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

  • 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


Exhibitions of Portrait on the Fly - Video Portraits

2015 Art Futura
6. - 8. November 2015
Museo Nacional de
- Bogota, Colombia

2015 Art Futura
25.-26. November 2015
MALBA Museum
- Buenos Aires, Argentinia

2015 Amber2015 Festival
6.-15. November 2015
- Istanbul, Turkey

2015 Red Carpet Showroom
1.-15. November 015
Karlsplatz
- Vienna, Austria

2015 Art Futura
18. -28. November 2015
Web Plataforma Revólver
Plataforma Revólver
- Lisbon, Portugal

2015 Diplomatic Art
25. November 2015
Maria Theresia Bastion
- Timisoara, Romania

2015 Art Futura
1.-3 December 2015
Sinergia Tech,
- Montevideo, Uruquay

2015 Fukuoka City Museum
29. Sept.-4. October 2015
ISMAR Data Body as Artefact Exhibition
Curator: Julian Stadon
- Fukuoka, Japan

2015 Ars Electronica 2015
4.-7. September 2015
at Ars Electronica Center
featuring "Portrait on the Fly"
(interactive version and 12 plotter drawings)
Curator: Gerfried Stocker
- Linz, Austria