Press Release: ix3 - Video portraits for the iPhone generation

Richard Vickers from the University of Lincoln, here in the UK, has just launched a new project called ix3, capturing video portraits and showing them in an online, dynamic, triptych gallery.

Press release:

With reference to the great tradition of portrait photography, ix3 utilises video portraits in an online, dynamic, triptych gallery. The project is participatory; and offers everyone an opportunity to create a video portrait using a mobile phone camera and add it to the online gallery. Each video portrait displays the first name of the subject, their hometown or location and the ISO 3166 country code. Three video portraits are displayed on the screen at the same time, as each one ends it is replaced by another random video portrait.

Call for participants

ix3 will have its international launch on the 6th May at the International Symposium of Interactive Media Design, Yeditepe University, Istanbul. The project will be exhibited around the word and available to one and all via the web.

This is an open call for contributors and participants to produce video portraits and add them to the project.

We do have a few stipulations for when you create your video portrait:

• Chose a plain background (it can be coloured, but plain, uncluttered)
• Use plenty of light 
• Use a tripod if possible or place your iPhone on a stable platform (table, desk etc)
• Keep still (or ask your subject to keep still) and look directly into the lens
• Try and shoot about 60 seconds of video (this is longer than you think)

You can upload via the ‘contribute’ section on the site, maximum file size is 100MB.

For more information on this project and upload your video portrait, head over to www.ix3.co.uk