Young Girl (iv)
About this artwork
In the summer of 2016, the hugely successful Pokémon Go app encouraged players to find Pokémon characters in their local area by using augmented reality. McMurdo has long been interested in the impact of computers on children and play. In the series Let’s Go to a Place, she digitally manipulated the portraits of final year primary pupils with a technique used for creating visual patterns in video games, to explore this collision between the real and virtual worlds.
Published September 2022
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artist:Wendy McMurdo (born 1962) Scottish
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title:Young Girl (iv)
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date created:2016
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materials:Chromogenic print
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measurements:49.00 x 51.00 cm (framed: 52.00 x 44.00 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 2017
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accession number:PGP 907.1
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Wendy McMurdo
Wendy McMurdo
Wendy McMurdo was born in Edinburgh and studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in the ways in which technology influences early learning, and has worked with children in schools. In recent years digital processing has allowed photographers...