Portrait on the Fly (Video Portraits) consists of short video sequences where the moving portrait of well known media art pioneers, scholars, artists, theorist, gallerist and organizers are turned into a swarm of flies. These video sequences include portraits by Jeffrey Shaw, Frieder Nake, Mark Wilson, Hans Dehlinger, Edmond Couchot, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Peter Weibel, Jeffrey Shaw, Lynn Hershman, Roger Malina, Marie Hélène Tramus, Christiane Paul, Sarah Diamond, Peter d’Agostino, Gerfried Stocker, Oliver Grau, Maurice Benayoun, Paul Thomas, Jill Scott, Paul Sermon, Simon Biggs, Greg Garvey, Gebhart Sengmüller, Thecla Schiphorst, Jean-Luc Soret, Chu-Yin Chen, Dominique Moulon, Nina Czeglédy, Ellen Pau, Wolf Lieser, Tomoe Moriyama, Erkki Huhtamo, Machiko Kusahara, Hiroshi Ishii, Ryszard Kluszczynski, Annick Bureaud, Derrick de Kerckhove, Jean-Louis Boissier, Anne-Marie Duguet, Anita Beckers, Sabine Himmelsbach, Victoria Vesna, Alain Lioret, Michel Bret, Maria Grazia Mattei, Dierk Maass, Antoinette Airoldi, Valerie Hasson-Benillouche, Jens Hauser, Diego Diaz, Clara Boj, Peter Bosch, Jadwiga Charzynska, Yara Guasque, Victoria Vesna, Thecla Schiphorst, Stahl Stenslie, Rebecca Allen, Philip Dean, Maria Jose Martinez de Pison Ramon, Karin Ohlenschläger, Pau Waelder, Pau Alsina, Katharina Gsöllpointner, Sean Cubitt, Minoru Hatanaka, Masahiro Miwa, Joachim Sauter, Giaco Schiesser, Tamiko Thiel, Mariano Sardon among many others. It is a growing personal archive of media art experts, who from Sommerer & Mignonneau’s personal point of view, significantly contribute to the development and acceptance of media art within contemporary art.
Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer - Portrait on the Fly (Video Portraits)
Portrait on the Fly (Video Portraits) consists of short video sequences where the moving portrait of well known media art pioneers, scholars, artists, theorist, gallerist and organizers are turned into a swarm of flies. These video sequences include portraits by Jeffrey Shaw, Frieder Nake, Mark Wilson, Hans Dehlinger, Edmond Couchot, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Peter Weibel, Jeffrey Shaw, Lynn Hershman, Roger Malina, Marie Hélène Tramus, Christiane Paul, Sarah Diamond, Peter d’Agostino, Gerfried Stocker, Oliver Grau, Maurice Benayoun, Paul Thomas, Jill Scott, Paul Sermon, Simon Biggs, Greg Garvey, Gebhart Sengmüller, Thecla Schiphorst, Jean-Luc Soret, Chu-Yin Chen, Dominique Moulon, Nina Czeglédy, Ellen Pau, Wolf Lieser, Tomoe Moriyama, Erkki Huhtamo, Machiko Kusahara, Hiroshi Ishii, Ryszard Kluszczynski, Annick Bureaud, Derrick de Kerckhove, Jean-Louis Boissier, Anne-Marie Duguet, Anita Beckers, Sabine Himmelsbach, Victoria Vesna, Alain Lioret, Michel Bret, Maria Grazia Mattei, Dierk Maass, Antoinette Airoldi, Valerie Hasson-Benillouche, Jens Hauser, Diego Diaz, Clara Boj, Peter Bosch, Jadwiga Charzynska, Yara Guasque, Victoria Vesna, Thecla Schiphorst, Stahl Stenslie, Rebecca Allen, Philip Dean, Maria Jose Martinez de Pison Ramon, Karin Ohlenschläger, Pau Waelder, Pau Alsina, Katharina Gsöllpointner, Sean Cubitt, Minoru Hatanaka, Masahiro Miwa, Joachim Sauter, Giaco Schiesser, Tamiko Thiel, Mariano Sardon among many others. It is a growing personal archive of media art experts, who from Sommerer & Mignonneau’s personal point of view, significantly contribute to the development and acceptance of media art within contemporary art.