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@article{ART002179042},
author={Seung-Chol Shin},
title={Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2016},
number={40},
pages={65-95},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seung-Chol Shin
TI - Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2016
VL - null
IS - 40
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 65
EP - 95
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This paper critically examines a style of contemporary portraiture. ‘The portrait without face’ is borrowed from the last century as an appropriate form of modern biological portraiture. The portraiture in the era of biotech bears the biological trace, and builds the visual form, which refers to the subject symbolically as well as realistically. The portrait without face caused the crisis of representation in the last century, whereas the biological portraiture strengthens the relation between sitter and image. The activity of image, which bears the biological trace, forms an occasionality. The genetic trace performs a function of portrait conforming to index paradigm. It supports the return of print image in the anachronism, which refers to old faith of image, and tries to use this trace as an index, which humans have been using for years. The portraiture without face opens the space for difference, movement, and alteration. It refers to the reality of subject, which couldn’t be experienced without the image, and leads to an increase of being in the new representational forms. The modern subject emerges from the form of indexicality. It consists in the order of image, which is based on genetics.
KW - occasionality;bio art;genetic portraiture;era of art;crisis of representation;index paradigm;DNA fingerprinting
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003
ER -

Seung-Chol Shin. (2016). Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech. Journal of History of Modern Art, 40, 65-95.

Seung-Chol Shin. 2016, "Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.40, pp.65-95. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003

Seung-Chol Shin "Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech" Journal of History of Modern Art 40 pp.65-95 (2016) : 65.

Seung-Chol Shin. Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech. 2016; 40 : 65-95. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003

Seung-Chol Shin. "Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech" Journal of History of Modern Art no.40(2016) : 65-95.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003

Seung-Chol Shin. Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech. Journal of History of Modern Art, 40, 65-95. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003

Seung-Chol Shin. Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2016; 40 65-95. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003

Seung-Chol Shin. Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech. 2016; 40 : 65-95. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003

Seung-Chol Shin. "Trace and Mediation: The Portraiture without Face in the Era of Biotech" Journal of History of Modern Art no.40(2016) : 65-95.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2016..40.003