I love them. There's a tendecy to ascribe some kind of sympathetic-magic
"meaning" to this kind of move, as if the act of erasure or homogenising has as
a straightforward linguistic complement "the pictures are
earased/flattened/made homogensous therefore this constitutes an effacement of
any qualities they might have too"... I think this is an
over-simplification.Firstly my work still exists - for that not to be the case
you'd have to come round my house and forcibly remove the originals and destroy
them and even then their digital representations ( those on Flickr and any that
anyone might have downloaded, since everything on my Flickr stream is Creative
Commons and freely downloadable) are still out there.Secondly I think,and this
surpises me somewhat, it ignores what seems to me to be a crucial feature of
the network which is that it enables a kind of performative play ( not
something new of course but at a much larger scale and much more immediate)
between artists/makers -akin to rhyming battles, variations on a theme of,
skipping games, pas de deux, joke turn taking. I take the fact someone *plays*
with work I have made as part of its "meaning" in the broadest sense of the
term. It's something additive, not destructive or negating. And it's social and
thus profoundly, perhaps definingly human. And it's fun.cheersmichael
From: Randall Packer <[email protected]>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Cc: michael szpakowski <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Portraits as Calculated Color Averaging
So @David, first I would like to thank you for this provocative translation of
Michael’s portraits. The conversion brings up some interesting questions
concerning our discussion of net behaviours and what might be a statement
concerning net identity. (At least I can construe it that way.)
If in fact Michael has lent warmth, personalization, visualization, and a sense
of “realness" to some of the unique identities and faces participating on this
list, in your color averaging calculation, does it not erase all of that? What
we are left with is a single, pure color that has been assigned to a hexagram
value as used in coding and stylizing on the Web. It reminds me a little of the
George Lucas film THX1138, in which individuality is reduced to numerical
values, a common motif in many science fiction films about the horrors of the
future & technology & identity annihilation.
My question then is whether or not this was at all the intent of the series or
if it is legitimate in your mind to interpret your renderings this way: as
commentary on our evolving net identities, how we are perceived online, how the
distribution and virtualization of our personalities might lose their
distinction (and detail) via the network as they become homogenized in a sea of
values.
Randall
From: That Is Repulsive <[email protected]>
Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 6:31 PM
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>, michael szpakowski <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] neat NZ rites : helen varley jamieson / MANY
Series so farhttps://www.behance.net/Netartizens
Portraits based on the calculated average colour derived from original artworks
by michael szpakowskiGenerated using custom Processing script 2448x2448px PNG
File format
#88837f_helen_varley_jamieson.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308701/88837f_helen_varley_jamiesonpng
#61707a_karl_heinz_jeron.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308647/61707a_karl_heinz_jeronpng
#6f616d_helen_pritchard.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308577/6f616d_helen_pritchardpng
#2d2d2e_rob_myers.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308497/2d2d2e_rob_myerspng
#8c8e92_kath_o'donnell.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308453/8c8e92_kath_odonnellpng
#adaaad_simon_mclennan.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308389/adaaad_simon_mclennanpng
#89868d_isabel_brison.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308275/89868d_isabel_brisonpng
#7f7b81_mez.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308159/7f7b81_mezpng
#6c706f_alan_sondheim.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308089/6c706f_alan_sondheimpng
#747892_patrick_lichty.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24308005/747892_patrick_lichtypng
#9c8189_dr_hairy.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24307781/9c8189_dr_hairypng
#837f84_ruth_catlow.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24307661/837f84_ruth_catlowpng
#7e797e_randall_packer.pnghttps://www.behance.net/gallery/24307275/7e797e_randall_packerpng
David
On 8 Mar 2015, at 20:42, michael szpakowski <[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/16755763411/
oil on canvas //12X9" //painted from google search // posted to Flickr
series so far:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/sets/72157651122579216 cheersmichael
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