Current projects // 2020
Portraits (2019-)
This project comprises game engine programs, 3D scans, videos, performances, paintings, digital models and more. Influenced by the discussions OOO and the ‘being’, of virtual entities this project started as a series of ‘Diary room’ portraits of Adobe Fuse avatars and has since expanded to be a series of broader experiments looking at the interplay between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ ontologies, and representations of portraiture throughout history including those in art history and painting, to TV talking heads or virtual avatars.
Decay Portraits - works in progress (2020)
Oil on canvas
40x40cm
for more regular updates on these paintings check my instagram
Portrait of a man (2020)
Unity Game Engine Programme,
Infinite Duration
Portrait of a woman (2020)
Unity Game Engine Programme,
Infinite Duration
Self Portrait (2019-)
Unity Game Engine Programme,
Infinite Duration
This project plays with the shifting boundaries around what we regard as ‘real’.
This self portrait is materialised using android 3D scanning software, Unity Engine, and Facerig (all of which are free softwares) to create a never-ending virtual interpretation of my face’s geometry, movement and being.
The premise is to treat data itself, in the context of the Second Digital Turn (Mario Carpo, 2017), as a material - one that is now in even greater abundance than garbage itself - and to explore how vernacular processes are incorporating this new stuff into the the real and virtual
environments, and everything in between.
This portrait was made using a 3D scanning app available on the android store, Blender and Unity (all are available for free).
[left]
Self Portrait / 3D Scan Study(2020)
Oil on Canvas,
50x40cm
[below]
Gif taken from 'Charecroft' Game Engine program. Work in progress (April 2020)
Two panel study renders for 'Charecroft Diptych', April 2020
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