Image Raster

portraits for Ontem Choveu no Futuro (2022)

TECHNICAL INFO: 2k (2732p x 1100p) – 4’48”

ENVIRONMENT: Processing and SuperCollider (sound)

This video is part of the immersive exhibition Ontem Choveu no Futuro directed by Batman Zavareze, inaugurated in 2022 at MIS Ceará in the city of Fortaleza

portraits for Ontem Choveu no Futuro is a video developed in the Processing programming environment. The work employs techniques of rasterization, typography, and trigonometric functions. The rasterization was created from digitized portraits provided by MIS Ceará.

The project emerges from earlier experiments involving photopaintings translated into the same technique. I am interested in images that reflect the visual culture of a particular time and everyday life. Photopainting — widely present in the popular culture of Northeast Brazil throughout the 20th century — vividly symbolizes the relationship between the artisanal and the industrial, between a pre-bourgeois world and a post-capitalist context, between the archaic and the new

rotateLerpPortraits (2022)

TECHNICAL INFO: 4k (5:4) – 0’44”

ENVIRONMENT: Processing