At the turn of 21st century, portraiture underwent significant transformations. While there were many attempts to “reinvent” portrait as a genre, it has been flourishing in new status—now an instrument for image creation. Being one important forms preservation and transmission memory individual, isinfluenced by algorithms advertisement. present, fixation our memories through becomes vehicle ide...

We report on a week-long celebration of Computational Creativity research and practice in a gallery in Paris, France. The festival was called You Can’t Know my Mind, and was intended to introduce to the public the idea that researchers such as ourselves are writing software to be surprisingly unpredictable and creative in nature. The festival included a traditional art exhibition with a verniss...

This interdisciplinary paper hypothesizes that Rembrandt, reacting to his Italian contemporaries, developed specific painterly techniques, typically not associated with the early modern period that engaged the viewer and directed their gaze. Though these methods were not based on scientific evidence at the time, it can be argued that they are based on a correct understanding of visual perceptio...

Portraiture is a major art form in both photography and painting. In most instances, artists seek to make the subject stand out from its surrounding, for instance, by making it brighter or sharper. In the digital world, similar effects can be achieved by processing a portrait image with photographic or painterly filters that adapt to the semantics of the image. While many successful user-guided...

The goal of our research is to enhance the traditional museum viewer experience by constructing an interactive exhibition piece where viewers can emotionally interact with the act of creating a fine art painting. Through our interactive Creative Artificial Intelligence System (CAIS) which generates art portraiture, we try to recognize what our users are experiencing (emotionally) when they view...

This photo essay explores the practice of digital self-portraiture as an epistemological practice. Drawing on well-established role photography within anthropological canon, this looks with a new criticality act by anthropologist both performative praxis and ethnographic tool. Employing series photographs taken in Venice, how taking self-portraits to enrich Instagram self is vital step research...

The paper introduces the exhibition, Real Faces of Royal Borough. This touring exhibition combines digital portraiture by artist Nevada Lynn and research on gentrification displacement urban geographer Sharda Rozena. By focusing individual lives experiences twelve residents from Kensington Chelsea, we highlight everyday impact in this London borough, including displacement, transient community,...