tapeportraits Boston, Massachusetts
Magnetic strips on swipe cards are scanned with magnetic tape heads and recorded as audio to cassette tape. I ask each person I'm taking a portrait of to give me the cards in their wallet that have a magstip-- credit cards, IDs etc. It examines the meaning of a portrait as a representation of a person when technology and capitalism increasingly simplifies human individuality as pure data. ... more
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