Generative portraits with Lincoln Schatz
What’s a portrait? What’s a memory? Traditional portraiture is a point fixed in time - but visual artist Lincoln Schatz doesn’t think memories aren’t frozen moments. They are pieces of information and images that collide and juxtapose with each other. They mix. They overlap.
To represent this view of the world, he makes what he calls “generative portraits” - a system that collects information about the environment and the world and uses software to sift through it and evolve the portrait over time. It’s like a memory in art.
It becomes a moving, changing piece of art that functions, he says, “like a third person in the environment”.
He’s done portraits for many different people, but this method is essentially lots of small pieces of information grabbed over a long period of time. How about switching the idea around?
His latest project, CUBE, takes a huge amount of information over a very short period of time. It’s a 10×10 box, filled with 24 cameras that film for an hour and push information to a sequence of cameras to create an overlapping generative portrait.
Here’s one with Elon Musk, the entrepreneur to give you an idea of what it looks like (all the videos are on YouTube).
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