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Coveruncover, 2014

by Phoebe Carmody

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014
 

Winner, Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014
Single channel HD video

Coveruncover, 2014 by Phoebe Carmody
Video: 3 minutes

Coveruncover seeks to explore self-awareness and vulnerability through the recording of habitual everyday actions, such as dressing and undressing. The animations were created by hand-tracing and animating single video frames from short webcam sequences. They are intended to be viewed and shared online.

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014
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by Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker
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by Imogen Henry
Coveruncover, 2014
by Phoebe Carmody
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by Joey Knox
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by Xanthe Dobbie
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Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014

Previous exhibition, 2014

The Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award is an annual event to extend traditional notions of portraiture and foster emerging artists with an interest in contemporary technology.
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