Face To Face: Portraiture in a Digital Age

Face to Face: Portraiture in the Digital Age invites you to explore the new face of portraiture in a digital age. In this exhibition you will come face to face with a range of different digital portraits: poignant video portraits, computer animated talking heads, idealised images and avatars, digital faces that are fractured, morphed and transformed, and your own image captured and displayed before your eyes as a visual timeline of continually changing portraits.

The artworks in the exhibition also hold up a mirror to contemporary culture and society showing us a portrait of ourselves in the 21st century. In these portraits we see our contemporary narcissistic obsession with celebrity, youth and beauty, the astounding fluidity of digital image manipulation and transformation, our fascination with the power of science and digital technologies to analyse and transform the human image, and an emerging predilection for the creation of digital alter egos and fantasy identities.

Text by Kathy Cleland. Exhibition curated by Kathy Cleland for d/Lux/MediaArts, toured by Visions of Australia and Asialink.

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