Landscape/Portrait
Date uploaded: October 21, 2008
Landscape/Portrait is an art project that invites participation from geographically defined communities and encourages participants to create individual video self portraits in response to stereotypical views of their localities. It is an online social sampling project that allows communities to challenge the authenticity of demographic stereotypes depicting person and place. The work exists as a web site (www.landscape-portrait.com), which may be made available to communities in a range of public settings, in order to generate local participation.
The starting point of Landscape/Portrait is the demographic statistics that are used to create models of places and the communities who live in them. These statistical models are frequently referenced by town-planners and developers in the planning and design of public services and regeneration projects.
http://www.landscape-portrait.com
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