Matt Romein

All portraits were developed in real-time using Max 6 and a Kinect camera.

The scan-line image in the upper right corner is an RGB image that is cycled through threshold values in cv.jit.binedge. The larger image is a depth based image that acts as a mask for the RGB camera. This RGB image is run through cv.jit.threshold and then overlaid with 3 plane noise that only shows up within the depth based image mask.

The subject sits completely still while screen capture software grabs the video and the video is converted into a .gif using Gimp.

gif-portraits

.gif Portraits

Julien Bayle

FRGMENTS is both an installation & a live performance.  Permanently seeking a signal, an expression, a significant clue which could make me understanding the other better, I use the face expression as a possible emotions emitter expressing what we have in the deepest.  I show video portraits, I overlay, I cut them into fragments, trying all possible combinations, for making multiple impassive faces a new one that may have or show a feeling, an emotion. I’m using  cutup aesthetic and mathematical technics (Gysin & Burroughs) as a method for exploring, discovering again a raw matter. I’m also trying to fill in the nerve racking & deafening silence coming from these inert faces by using specific sound frequencies and granular textures as permanently disrupted continua pushing audience to feel the fury I have while I’m zooming, digging, trying to know who the other is & what she or he feels.

FRGMENTS is commissioned by Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea and supported by SEED Lab.

FRGMENTS is both an installation & a live performance.  Permanently seeking a signal, an expression, a significant clue which could make me 

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