Selfportrait.Map: Locurto/Outcault

Posner, Helaine, and Gelernter, David

ISBN 10: 0295979348 / ISBN 13: 9780295979342

Published by Lynn Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College; M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, New London, CT, and Cambridge, MA, 2000

About this Item

63 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, and other locations. Good+. A few scattered pencil marks, else fine. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 006775

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selfportrait.Map: Locurto/Outcault
• Publisher: Lynn Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College; M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, New London, CT, and Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295979348
• ISBN 13: 9780295979342
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • A BARGAIN BASEMENT
  • Movements::Digital Arts
  • Photography::Techniques
  • XL: Extra Large
  • USA::7. Contemporary, 2000-

About this title

Synopsis

"selfportrait.map" charts the development of the collaborative work by artists Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault from 1992 to the present, culminating in a series of self portraits generated from three dimensional body scans. Employing a full-body scanner, traditional cartography software, and another software to make the two compatible, the artists began to produce photographic self-portraits as map projections. LoCurto/Outcault set about this inquiry as a way to "deconstruct the human form in terms of its volume, rendering it in absolute two-dimensions." This volume accompanies an exhibition of 18 of these images. Helaine Posner is an independent curator living in New York. David Gerlenter is art critic for the Weekly Standard and author of "Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology".