“Content is Queen” is a video art series of generative portraits that reflects on the foundations of democracy and the resilient nature of structures of power. At the same time, it is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and the utterly majestic: to create the series, the most popular (in a truly democratic sense) internet videos of a given moment are used as the input of a generative process that “paints” with action the portrait of the Queen.
On a technical level, this piece is a result of my research in breaking the limitations of the static image in a contemporary revision of the tradition of painting. The portraits are created using an innovative generative technique that I have developed called “generative video painting”. It differs from previous attempts of video collage (like the techniques developed by David Hockney, mixing simultaneous points of view of an action) or video mosaic (where still images are represented by whole videos acting as pixels when properly reduced in size). My technique uses regions of video content to effectively represent or “paint” heterogeneous regions of the image. Both the partial content of the videos and the whole image are fully visible at the same time, widening the possibilities to deliver meaning in a contemporary aesthetic language.
“Content is Queen” es una serie de retratos generativos en formato de video arte que reflexiona acerca de los fundamentos de la democracia y la naturaleza perdurable de las estructuras de poder. Al mismo tiempo, es un diálogo paradójico y un extraño matrimonio entre lo banal y lo elevadamente majestuoso: para la creación de la serie, los videos más populares de Internet en un momento dado (en un sentido realmente democrático), se utilizan como base para el proceso generativo que “pinta” con dinamismo la imagen de una Reina contemporánea.
Desde un punto de vista técnico, la pieza es el resultado de mi investigación para romper las limitaciones de la imagen estática en una revisión contemporánea de la tradición pictórica. Los retratos se forman por medio de una técnica que he desarrollado a la que llamo “pintura video generativa”. Se diferencia de otras formas de “collage” de video (como las técnicas desarrolladas por David Hockney, mezclando puntos de vista simultáneos sobre una acción) o el video mosaico (donde una imagen fija se representa con videos completos que funcionan como píxels cuando se reducen en tamaño). Mi técnica utiliza regiones de contenido de video para representar de forma efectiva o “pintar” regiones hetereogéneas de la imagen. Tanto el contenido parcial del video como la imagen completa pueden percibirse de forma simultánea, ampliando así las posibilidades de comunicar significado en un lenguaje estético verdaderamente contemporáneo.
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