Claudia Hart
Claudia Hart has always been at the forefront of experimentation with virtual imaging, using 3D animation to make media installations and projections, then later as they were invented, other forms of VR and AR. Hart’s work is about issues of the body, perception, nature collapsing into technology and then back again. Everything is fluid in it, including gender.
These 4 photographs of “E” which integrate 3D elements are from a larger series depicting the first virtual supermodel (a claim much made later by others). “E” represents the condition of the contemporary woman in today's postindustrial, technological society. “E” is a metaphor of woman as the ultimate consumer product in a dystopic future world, in which the artificial has uneasily crossed the boundary of the real.
7a. "E" the Virtual Supermodel: E as Thierry Mugler’s Sexy Robot, Visiting Vienna, 2003, 3D model integrated into photography
7b. "E" the Virtual Supermodel: E in Thierry Mugler’s Apron Dress, On the Vienna Underground, 3D model integrated into photography
7c. "E" the Virtual Supermodel: E as Rei Kawakubo, Shopping in Soho, NY, 3D model integrated into photography
7d. "E" the Virtual Supermodel: E in Warhol Dresses at Empire Plaza, Albany, NY, 3D model integrated into photography
