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

 

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Portrait on the Fly – Plotter Drawings Concept

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.

If you are interrested in one of these portraits, please contact the Galerie Charlot or the Galerie Anita Beckers for pricing and availability. A personal portrait can also be made on request.

Self Fly Portrait

 

 
 
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Exhibitions of "Portrait on the Fly - Plotter Drawings"

 

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 Ars Electronica Festival 2018
Represented by: Anita Beckers Galerie
Featuring our VR artwork "Fly Simulator"
- Linz, Austria

2018 Art Paris Art Fair
Represented by: Galerie Charlot (April 5th to April 8th)
Featuring "Neuro Mirror" and several Digital Prints of "Portrait on the Fly"
Grand Palais
- Paris, France

2015 Parallel Art Fair
23.-27. September 2015
represented by Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
- Vienna, Austria

2015 Art Bahrain
13.-16. October 2015
represented by Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
- Manama, Bahrain

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

2015 DAM Gallery Berlin
"AESTHETICA, 50 Years Computer Generated Art"
Featuring "Portrait on the Fly" (pen plotter drawing version)
Preview: Friday, 29 of May 2015, 19h - 21h
Artist Talk: 30th May 2015, 15h
With the presence of Frieder Nake, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau and Mark Wilson.
Ausstellung: 30. Mai - 1. August 2015
- Berlin, Germany