Portraits

Portraits in Pink, Blue, and Silver is an interactive kinetic artwork created by BREAKFAST using their Flip-Disc medium. This artwork is part of the Portraits series and records clips of visitors interacting with the work and then plays them back, cycling through all of the interactions.

BREAKFAST has become known around the world for the interactive large-scale and collector-size artworks created from their patented Flip-Discs medium.

Please do not touch the piece or go beyond the stanchions.

Portraits in Pink, Blue, and Silver is made of Flip-Discs — a medium developed by BREAKFAST which uses electromagnets to rotate the physical pixels from one side to another. The Portraits series is an exploration in connecting people with those who have come before them. By capturing and replaying one’s experience of seeing their own silhouette come to life, they leave their mark upon the piece forever.

When one walks up to the artwork, they will see their image reflected back at them. When they step away, a portion of their interaction will replay and then will be added to the series. Over time, the piece will gather and replay thousands of interactions captured from today all the way back to when the piece was first set up.

BREAKFAST is a Brooklyn-based robotic kinetic art studio led by artists Andrew Zolty and Mattias Gunneras. The studio, started in 2009, is focused on creating forward-looking software-and-hardware-driven artworks that connect viewers to far-away places through interactive experiences, and tell powerful stories about our rapidly-changing world.

The studio's practice employs a unique blend of computer science, mechanical engineering, and playful, emotionally-striking aesthetics to invite audiences to reflect on the relationship between the physical, the digital, the global, and the intimate—as well as the evolving relationships between human bodies and technological innovation in the Information Age. 

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