have a look at autoscopia, it generates 'portraits' from the web (at least that part of it accessible to search engines)
http://www.autoscopia.net/pages/index.html more from one of the authors of autoscopia, adam nash: http://twentyone.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-148-affect-and-the-medium-of-digital-data On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:20 PM, michael szpakowski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > cheers > michael > > ------------------------------ > *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 far > https://www.behance.net/Netartizens > > Portraits based on the calculated average colour derived from original > artworks by michael szpakowski > Generated using custom Processing script > 2448x2448px > PNG File format > > #88837f_helen_varley_jamieson.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308701/88837f_helen_varley_jamiesonpng > > #61707a_karl_heinz_jeron.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308647/61707a_karl_heinz_jeronpng > > #6f616d_helen_pritchard.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308577/6f616d_helen_pritchardpng > > #2d2d2e_rob_myers.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308497/2d2d2e_rob_myerspng > > #8c8e92_kath_o'donnell.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308453/8c8e92_kath_odonnellpng > > #adaaad_simon_mclennan.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308389/adaaad_simon_mclennanpng > > #89868d_isabel_brison.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308275/89868d_isabel_brisonpng > > #7f7b81_mez.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308159/7f7b81_mezpng > > #6c706f_alan_sondheim.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308089/6c706f_alan_sondheimpng > > #747892_patrick_lichty.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24308005/747892_patrick_lichtypng > > #9c8189_dr_hairy.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24307781/9c8189_dr_hairypng > > #837f84_ruth_catlow.png > https://www.behance.net/gallery/24307661/837f84_ruth_catlowpng > > #7e797e_randall_packer.png > https://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 > > cheers > michael > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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