Family Portrait
Interactive Portraits, 1993, pp. 2-3
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canda, 1993
Interactive Portraits by Luc Courchesne is a multi-user, interactive video installation that is an experimentation with portraiture. While traditional portraits are a single, static image, Courchesne's hypermedia portraits serve as a metaphor for an encounter. They capture and render not only a physical likeness, but also fragments of behaviour through the use of video and a computer screen where one can ask questions and receive answers. Visitors must invest time and great care to truly see the whole portrait.
(see 1993.084 for artist biographies)
ITEM 1993.082 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Interactive Portraits – Luc Courchesne