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25.10.03 Portret Series, generated portraits.
Elout de Kok, author of several experiments within his Pixel Lab, has developed, during this year, the Portret Series, an array of portraits which are formed according to a process where the progressive recognizability of the image is based on the layering of patterns. In the three series (atty, loes kalb and zelf), made with Java, the different details define the basic particles of the image from where an original and autonomous matrix is created that slowly builds the subject, while its visual memory identifies the more evident traits of the person to be portrayed. The building of a vague human identity, seen as a process of image generation, becomes a coded process which, on one hand, defines a 'generative' algorithm and the shapes which make it work and, on the other, gradually stimulates the eyes, putting their usual mechanisms of recognition under stress. Two different codes which, at first, run side by side and, after some time, magically converge.