I’m always impressed by the high-tech art displayed at the Interactive Installation Meetup events. Who knows if I’ll ever understand any of it on a coding level, but theoretically I know what’s going on. So, I sat in front of a laptop, which took my headshot. Then the program randomly chose pixels to recreate the headshot. I’m not exactly sure what other algorithms were at play because the portrait originally looked just like a stylishly pixelated photo.
As time passed, the image became increasingly randomized. I think this was both a cool effect and tapped into everyone’s ego. How often can we see a distorted image of ourselves without it being a distorted sense of ourselves?
