National #Selfie Portrait Gallery Now Open in London

By Marina Galperina | October 17, 2013 - 12:23PM

The Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair in South Bank, London has just opened. Earlier, we posted that Kyle Chayka and I curated an installation of 19 artists, 17 selfie-based video art pieces (all 30 seconds or shorter) with an interactive booth. It’s there. ATTENTION FELLOW PRESS PPL: Let me answer this Q 4u…

Are #selfies art now?
#Selfies are not art (or #art)
but these video art pieces are selfies.

ALRIGHT. Anyway, National #Selfie Portrait Gallery came out pretty great but I haven’t slept in three days and if you’re in London, you should come over for the reception, 6-8pm tonight (right now.) Some fresh-off-the-iPhone installation photos for you in the gallery above and here’s the trailer, again:

One piece in the show is Alexander Porter’s bit.ly-GL27CV. One of the masterminds of the #RGBDToolkit — an open source Kinnect x Cannon 3D rendering ware — Alexander’s selfie is a digital 3D scan of his face, unfurled like a landscape canvas. EXCLUSIVE ON ANIMAL! (How’d we score that shit amirite?)