Selfies get their own gallery in London

The "National #Selfie Portrait Gallery" displays a rotating series of videos, 30 seconds or less, installed on two screens.

(Credit: Marina Galperina/Animal New York)

Chances are you’ve taken one or two (or a dozen) selfies in your day. And if you’re like the majority of selfie-snappers, your digital self-portraits have probably involved pointing a smartphone at yourself and hoping you manage to capture both your nose and mouth in the same frame.

Then there’s Alexander Porter, who took a selfie involving a digital 3D scan of his face, unfurled in pastel moving images like a pillowey landscape canvas.

He’s one of 19 emerging artists whose short-form videos engaging with the “selfie” medium appear in the “National #Selfie Portrait Gallery,” a curated installation that opened Thursday at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair in London.

Selfies like you’ve never seen them (pictures)

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