Anne Collins Goodyear's talk from Ignite MCN at MCN2012.

1. The Reinvention of
the Work of Art
Anne Collins Goodyear
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
GoodyearA@si.edu

2. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction,” 1936
(first English translation, 1968)
Walter Benjamin,
Passport Photo

4. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz

5. The Blind Man, no. 2 (1917)

6. Marcel Duchamp,
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917/1964
Fountain, 1917/1963 (Edition of 8, from Stieglitz
Selected by Ulf Linde photograph)
Moderna Museet,
Stockholm
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz

7. “[W]ith his little suitcase, his own MISE EN BOITE ET EN
VALISE, he will slip very freely into the twenty-first
century and all the rest.” Denis de Rougement, 1945
Marcel Duchamp, Box in a Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose
Sélavy). 1935-41. Museum of Modern Art, New York

8. Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #65 / Lines not short, not straight, crossing and
touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with
maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall., l971
red, yellow, blue, and black colored pencil
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art
(detail)

9. Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #65 / Lines not short, not straight, crossing and
touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with
maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall., l971
red, yellow, blue, and black colored pencil
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art
“The Machine is
the Idea that
Makes the Work”
—Sol Le Witt, 1967

10. Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #65 / Lines not short, not straight, crossing and
touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with
maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall., l971
red, yellow, blue, and black colored pencil
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art

11. Chuck Close,
Maquette for
Big Self-Portrait,
1968. Chuck Close,
Four gelatin- Big Self-
silver prints Portrait, 1968
scored Acrylic on
with ink, canvas, 107-
masking tape, 1/2 x 83-1/2.
and airbrush Walker Art
Paint mounted Center
on foamcore, 30
x 24” Private
Collection
Chuck Close,
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait,
Maquette for Self- 1968.
Portrait, 1968. Pencil on
Ink and felt-tip pen Paper, 29 x
on collaged 23 in.
photograph, 20 x16 “ Collection of
Private Collection MFA Boston.

12. Chuck Close, Keith/1,280, 1973
Ink and graphite on paper, 21½ x 17¼
in. (54.6 x 43.7 cm.)

13. Tom Friedman, Untitled, 1998
Chromogenic print
24-1/4 x 46 in. (61.6 x 116.8 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Jason Salavon, Flayed
Duke Gift, 1999 Figure, Male, 3277 ½
square inches (1998/2001)
Laminated digital C-print,
69 x 47½ inches

14. Jason Salavon, Flayed Figure, Male,
3277 ½ square inches (1998/2001)
Laminated digital C-print, 69 x 47½ inches
Detail of image at left

15. Tom Friedman, Untitled, 1998
Chromogenic print 24 1/4 x 46 in. (61.6 x 116.8 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 1999

16. Jason Salavon The Late Night Triad, 2003
Three synced single-channel digital projections
Running time: 3 min 35 sec looped. Dimensions variable. Ed. 3 + 1 APs.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Lincoln Schatz, Selections from Esquire’s Portrait of the Twenty-First Century, 2008
(Jeff Bezos, Le Bron James, and J. Craig Venter)
Generative video, dimensions variable,
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

17. Jason Salavon The Late Night Triad, 2003
Three synced single-channel digital projections
Running time: 3 min 35 sec looped.
Dimensions variable. Ed. 3 + 1 APs.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

18. Lincoln Schatz, Selections from Esquire’s Portrait of the Twenty-First Century, 2008
(Jeff Bezos, Le Bron James,Samatha Power and J. Craig Venter)
Generative video, dimensions variable,
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Jeff Bezos Samantha Power
Schatz’s filming “Cube”
LeBron James J. Craig Venter

19. Hasan Elahi
Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project, 2003-Present
Screen Shot Screen Shot
December 22, 2011 October 29, 2012

20. Hasan Elahi,
Tracking Transience: Security and Comfort, 2007
C-Print, in 7 sections, 60 x 120 inches

21. Thanks!
Anne Collins Goodyear
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
GoodyearA@si.edu