A proposal using portraits from the Birmingham Museum Trust’s Digital Image Library for part of ‘Cut, Copy, Remix’ festival at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
A painted portriat and its digital twin is explored through the material translation of oil paint to pixel. Each remade portrait uses only what is contained in the original painting. William Phipson, inventor of a steel roller, is stretched and flattened, a miniature of G.F Watts, a painter and sculptor becomes a digital sculpture, and the portrait of surgeon, John Derrington is a dissection of his original portrait.
