Enter The Machine 3.0 builds on Enter The Machine 1.0 and Enter The Machine 2.0 by harkening back to the centuries-old tradition of subjects coming to an artist’s studio to have their portrait made, except the subjects are digital rather than corporeal.
Enter The Machine 3.0 consists of two series: Portraits of Famous Files and Portraits of People’s Files.
Portraits of Famous Files
Portraits of Famous Files, are portraits of digital files that have had significant historical or cultural impact dating from the start of the digital age in the 1960s through the present day.
Portraits of People’s Files
Portraits of People’s Files consists of privately commissioned portraits made from an individual’s or a group’s personal files. They are not famous, culturally speaking, but they tend to hold personal significance for the group or individual.
Commissions
A note from the artist
The general process for creating portraiture hasn’t changed in hundreds of years: get to know the subject, perceive their unique qualities, and render them in visual form. It’s a collaborative process that requires time and attention on the artist's part and patience and cooperation on the part of the patron.
I’m excited to explore this new frontier and expand the limits of portraiture to include digital entities. I invite you to join me in this exploration and commission a portrait of a digital entity that holds significance to you.
— Eric Corriel, artist
In 2025, the project website, v3.enterthemachine.io won a Webby Award in the category of Net Art and was also a Webby Honoree for Technical Achievement.
