Robotic Portraiture by Deena des Rioux
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Deena des Rioux ©1991 |
With the advent of wide-format inkjet printers in the late 1980’s comes the launch of a series of virtual portraits where the medium is symbiotic with the message. In a play to edgy science, a mix of photo-based components keeps pace with the reality of hybrids who owe their brave new existence to technological intervention. Here, the next step in elective evolution embraces icons from Pharoah to Punk. The microchip is a headpiece embedded for random access into any available memory. And with diverse cultural reference that links antiquity to circuitry, the vanguard of visual genres gives ironic spin to issues of robotic and bionic research.
-Deena des Rioux |
Following in the tradition of Man Ray's photo-montage and other
influences from Dada and the Surreal to fantasy and science fiction,
Deena des Rioux engages camera and computer to rethink the portrait
as a technological subject.
…"[Robotic Portraiture] works in well with the question about
portraiture in the late 20th century…..the reality is not the inner
personality; it is not the inner intellectuality, but rather it is
symbolic of the kind of cyberspace neurotransmitters that we all
ultimately are."
-Robert Sobiesczek (Silvermine Photography Biennial,
Connecticut,1998)
Deena des Rioux is Artist Laureate of the 2009 International Graphics
Triennale as conferred by the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Krakow.
Selected collections for her work are with the Brooklyn Museum, New
Orleans Museum of Art, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, and her
alma mater Rhode Island School of Design Museum. |
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Number of photographs: 20
Frame sizes:
from 11 x 17 inches to 60 x 37 inches
Linear feet: 120
Rental fee: $3500 for 8 weeks
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