What is a truly realistic portrait? This question inspired a project about going beyond physical appearances and attempting to render the interior world of a human being, through memories, emotions, relationships and personal story. All of it organized around a portrait painting metaphor: brushes loaded with meanings instead of paint would render a portrait using my “generative video painting” techniques.
Painting a Videorative portrait (a generative, narrative and interactive video portrait) starts with collecting personal videos of the person portrayed, tagged by him/her with relevant concepts and descriptions. Then, using a custom tool, the artist “paints with meanings” and generates a video portrait, subtitled with generative personal narratives. In the interactive installation version of the work, the viewer can “navigate” through the subject’s mind, opening his/her video memories, accessing their thoughts and revealing hidden connections between the meanings, using online access to Wikipedia to infer related emotional states. These “data visualization” create new and unexpected interpretations of the portrait.
The subject portrayed can add more video memories, tags and descriptions to “increase the likeness” of the portrait over time, all his/her life, creating a never-ending collection of personal documentaries.
Videorative portraits are the result of my experiments to build a more “realistic” contemporary portrait of the physical and the psychological. A comment on the art of portrait painting. A visual metaphor of the memory, heavily distorted, chaotic, fragmented, obsessively replayed. A window to the subject’s personal experience and intimate world. A picture of memories. A map of emotions.
My immense gratitude to filmmaker Randall Okita for accepting the challenge of exposing himself in these portraits.
Credits:
All video sources, by Randall Okita.
Music: “I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor”, by Chris Zabriskie.
¿Qué es un retrato realista? Esta pregunta inspiró un proyecto que fuera más allá de las apariencias y retratara el interior de un ser humano, a través de sus recuerdos, emociones, relaciones e historia personal. Todo ello condensado en una metáfora del arte del retrato pintado: pinceles cargados de significados en lugar de pintura representarían un retrato utilizando mis técnicas de “pintura videogenerativa”.
Pintar un retrato Videorativo (esto es, un retrato en vídeo generativo, narrativo e interactivo) comienza con la obtención de vídeos personales de la persona retratada, anotados por ella con coceptos y comentarios que sean significativos para él o ella. Entonces, utilizando una herramienta que se desarrolló espcialmente para el proyecto, el artista “pinta con significados” y genera un video subtitulado con narrativas personales automáticas. En la versión de instalación interactiva, el espectador puede “navegar” a través de la mente del retratado, abriendo sus video recuerdos, accediendo a sus pensamientos y revelando conexiones ocultas, utilizando el acceso a Wikipedia para inferir nuevos estados emocionales que unifican los recuerdos. Esta “visualización de datos” crea nuevos e inesperados significados del retrato.
La persona retratada puede añadir más y más video recuerdos, significados y comentarios, durante toda su vida, incrementando el “parecido” del retrato con el paso del tiempo, creando así una colección interminable de documentales personales.
Los retratos Videorativos son el resultado de mi experimentación para crear un retrato contemporáneo más “realista” de lo físico y de lo psicológico. Un comentario sobre el arte del retrato. Una metáfora visual de la memoria, fuertemente distorsionada, caótica, fragmentada, obsesivamente repetida. Una visualización de los recuerdos. Un mapa de emociones.
Mi gratitud inmensa al cineasta Randall Okita por aceptar el reto de exponerse en estos retratos.
Créditos:
Todas las fuentes de vídeo: Randall Okita.
Música: “I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor”, por Chris Zabriskie.
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