Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]

Author description: Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)] is a recombinant portrait and biography generator. The piece recombines the self-portraits of a dozen well-known painters as well as biographical text on each. Accordingly, the generated pictorial and textual portraits are no longer self portraits, but "selves" portraits, with subjects that are more than one. The piece deals with identity in an art-historical context, self-identity for any given artist, and identification as a process. There are over 120,000,000 possible recombinations.

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Art school was a waste of time for a genius like Monet, so he dropped out and moved to Vien where he met Ingres, Marcel Duchamp, and Andy Warhol.

Edouard Degas began as a graffiti artist, only switching to landscape painting after a holiday in Madrid. Today his work can be seen in advertisments for the war on terrorism.

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
Collaborations in E-lit	Stephanie Strickland, Nick Montfort	2011
Comedies of Separation: Toward a Theory of the Ludic Book	Brian Kim Stefans	2011
Dada Redux: Elements of Dadaist Practice in Contemporary Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	2008
E-Art: Fragmentation and Assembling	Alessandro Zinna	2011

Teaching Resource that references this work:

Resource	Author	Teaching Resource Type	Year
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2012)	Davin Heckman, Patricia Tomaszek	Syllabus	2012
Digital Literature (Engl 391, Fall 2008)	Jessica Pressman	Syllabus, Lesson plan	2008
Electronic Literature (DIKULT 203, Fall 2012)	Leonardo Flores	Syllabus	2012
Literature and Media: Electronic Literature (EN1126, Fall 2010)	Talan Memmott	Syllabus	2010

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