{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1159806"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1159806/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EH8459/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EH8459/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2010EH8459","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Jeremy Gardiner","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1159806/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1159806","accessionNumber":"E.517-2010","objectType":"Photograph","titles":[{"title":"Untitled (Stella), from The Library of Human Hard Copy","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"This image of Stella Orsini is one of four Gardiner made during a fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Orsini was writing her thesis about artists’ creative use of computers, and Gardiner had been experimenting with computational images in his own artistic practice. Here, he combined Orsini’s face with images from the medical textbook Gray’s Anatomy, to periodically reveal the musculature beneath.\r\n\r\nJeremy Gardiner studied at Newcastle University, then the Royal College of Art from 1980 to 1983. He also undertook a computer graphics course at Middlesex Polytechnic, sponsored by General Electric. Whilst at the RCA, Gardiner used a computer to create vector graphics and plotter drawings that formed the basis for larger paintings and graphite drawings. His RCA degree show was a great success, and one of the paintings was bought for the Government Art Collection.\n\r\nThis is one of a set of four images of Stella Orsini, created in 1984 while Gardiner was a Harkness Fellow in the Visible Language Workshop (VLW) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The VLW had been co-founded by Muriel Cooper and Ron MacNeil a decade earlier, in 1975. When Gardiner arrived, it was in the process of becoming part of MIT’s newly-established Media Lab, launched by Nicholas Negroponte.\n\r\nGardiner used the Visible Language Workshop’s SYS graphics computer system to create the four images:  “Whilst I was at MIT, Stella Orsini was writing her thesis about how artists were using computers creatively.  She was based in the VLW and I made a series of portraits of her, combining images of her face with pictures from Gray’s Anatomy. I created a four-panel portrait, which depicts her face frozen by a flash and then peeled away slowly to reveal the musculature beneath.”\r\n","physicalDescription":"C-type photograph","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Gardiner, Jeremy","id":"A27955"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Photography","id":"AAT54225"},{"text":"computer-generated","id":"x44521"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"C-type photograph","categories":[{"text":"Computer Art","id":"THES49037"},{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2010EH8459"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"101","id":"THES49933"},"free":"","case":"WE","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"United States","id":"x29333"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1984","earliest":"1984-01-01","latest":"1984-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Jeremy Gardiner","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"40.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"47.0","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Library of Human Hard Copy'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Embossed circular stamp with embossed text in lower right side."}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"C-type photograph, 'Untitled (Stella), from The Library of Human Hard Copy', by Jeremy Gardiner, 1984.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Orsini, Stella","id":"AUTH336117"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"portraits","id":"AAT15637"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.517-2010"],"accessionNumberNum":"517","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2010,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-13","recordCreationDate":"2010-06-03","availableToBook":false}}