Magoria
Look into the eyes of a county’s people - and see yourself
Magoria is a generative screen work commissioned by Faces of Oxfordshire and curated by Tom Freshwater. It was commissioned as part of events to celebrate 1000 years of Oxfordshire and its people.
Magoria is a screen work that generates a continuously evolving montage of faces from historical and contemporary photographic portraits of the people of Oxfordshire. The name is in tribute to ‘phantasmagoria’, an early 19th-century optical illusion that presented ghostly apparitions using projections and glass.
Magoria is a work in progress, and more images (both historical and contemporary) are being added as it tours the county throughout 2008-9. The work will then become part of the Oxfordshire Museums Service collections.
Historic portraits have been provided by Oxfordshire Studies.
Supported by Arts Council England and Oxfordshire County Council.
Event History
Date | Event | Type | Promoter | Venue | Town / City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24 2009 - Mar 1 2009 | Who is Who? - a thousand years of Oxfordshire faces | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire / Banbury Museum | Banbury Museum | Banbury | UK |
| Nov 28 2008 | Winter Light | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire | Winter Light | Oxford | UK |
| Oct 22 2008 - Dec 31 2008 | Magoria | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire | Cornerstone Arts Centre | Didcot | UK |
| Aug 30 2008 - Oct 20 2008 | Magoria | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire | Witney Library | Witney | UK |
| Aug 13 2008 - Aug 28 2008 | Magoria | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire | Abingdon Library | Abingdon | UK |
| Jul 8 2008 - Aug 11 2008 | Magoria | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire | Henley Library | Henley | UK |
| Jul 6 2008 | Cowley Road Carnival | Exhibition | Cowley Road Carnival | Oxford | UK | |
| Feb 1 2008 - Apr 20 2008 | Who is who? (Magoria) | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire | Museum of Oxford | Oxford | UK |
| Dec 7 2007 - Dec 8 2007 | Nightfair | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire | Gloucester Green Market | Oxford | UK |
| Nov 14 2007 | Reflecting the County | Exhibition | Faces of Oxfordshire | Woodstock Museum | Woodstock | UK |