Portrait of the Artist as a Home Page

inception: 2002

Description

"Portrait of the Artist as a Home Page" examines the easy narcissism of the internet. Using myriad personal homepages as its source material, "Portrait..." can be thought of as a documentary excavation and re-creation of the home page genre and its motivations. Font styles, background images, and most importantly the images themselves are all culled from actual home pages and websites. These multiple portraits illuminate and reconstruct the essential alone-ness of self-presentation on the internet. "Portrait..." is not only an examination of a new kind of self-portrait, but is also a self-portrait of the artist in itself, using home pages as a virtual sculptural material.

attributed to: Nino Rodriguez

inception: 31 December 2002

Legacy descriptive tags

Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, WNET, Rotterdam Film Festival, Nino Rodriguez, Museum of Modern Art, L.A. Freewaves, James Joyce, Guggenheim, Festival of New Cinema and Media Montreal, European Media Art Festival, Dylan Thomas, CANAL+, Bonn Videonale, Biennale de Montr, Alt-X, Montreal, Brooklyn, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Portrait of the Artist as a Dog

Attribution: Nino Rodriguez

Readymade, homepage, Documentary, Conceptual, social space, publish, identity, desire, community, archive, access, Javascript, HTML, Visual

Attribution: Rhizome staff

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Descriptive Data

artist: Nino Rodriguez

title: Portrait of the Artist as a Home Page

inception: 2002

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access URL: http://www.geocities.com/portraitoftheartistasahomepage/