An animated GIF by LaJuné McMillian, 2021

Medium: Animated GIF Dimensions: 800 × 437 px, 100 frames, looped-----------About The Work: 'Self Portrait' is an image produced from a 3D scan of the artist’s head. This work fits into McMillian’s wider practice of Black Movement, in which she aims to document, archive, and connect experiences and representations of Black bodies. The Black Movement Project is an online database of motion capture data from Black performers and Black character base models, which are currently underrepresented in available online databases. The project adopts narrative techniques that can be seen as both live formance and Web VR docuseries, showing how Black movement has been used as a tool for the preservation of Black culture as well as a vehicle for self-evolution. This portrait is just a small piece that points to the scope and richness of a much wider critical preservation of Blackness; which proudly demands abolition.-----------About the Artist: LaJuné McMillian is a New Media Artist, and Creative Technologist making art that integrates Performance, Virtual Reality, and Physical Computing to question current forms of communication. Through art that is abstracted from their personal experience, their work centers ideas of interconnection and experiencing life beyond the material world. McMillian’s art practice is part of their research centered around creating technology & media that are inherently intersectional, thereby allowing communities that have been ignored to have a space to be recognized, loved, accepted, and heard.-----------About The Purchase:The Token ID points to an exhibition copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery. -----------Collector with private link will receive: 1. GIF of 'Self Portrait' 2. Owner’s Rights and Obligations-----------Preventative Conservation: Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, high-resolution, uncompressed, lossless codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years. -----------Display: Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited.-----------Copyright: The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work and of all images of the work.-----------Transfer of Ownership: The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The Seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm that the agreed upon percentage of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.