Interrogating the Aesthetics of Digital Reality

CAPTURED PORTRAITS is an experimental digital art series that dissects and destabilizes the visual codes we often associate with portraiture in the digital age. It explores this through a hybridized language of visual glitches, algorithmic textures, and manipulated forms that evoke both the intimacy of traditional portraiture and the alienation of synthetic realities. The portraits do not aim to immortalize likeness, but instead generate digital artefacts—simulacra that echo captured reality while revealing its artificial seams. By exploring the interplay between digital art and the status of the image as a distorted portrait, the idea is to create artifacts that showcase the digital dimension, mimicking the essence of captured reality. The portrait becomes a site of collision: between identity and technology, memory and manipulation, presence and absence. CAPTURED PORTRAITS suggests that distortion is not failure, but transformation.

Cross-digital techniques

2021

questions about

perceptions