Lincoln Schatz's Cube
| October 31, 2007

Portraiture has historically been a means to immortality for the sitter. Traditionally, portraits are staged, often single moments bound by the time in which the individual modeled for the artist. Lincoln Schatz has created a multi-disciplinary work that combines architecture, sculpture, new media, relational aesthetics, and portraiture. Cube, a 10 x 10 x 8 foot architectural structure, extends from the artist’s formal background as a sculptor and draws on his more recent practice in generative video memory artworks.

Cube is designed with 24 video cameras mounted at varying heights within the structure— a one hour session in Cube creates a 24 hour visual rendering of the subject, from which a select percentage of files are retained in the artist’s specially designed software to create a dense, many-layered video portrait. Drawing on the historical tradition of portraiture as biographical, Cube subjects are encouraged to represent their personalities, interests and values in whatever capacity they choose— the artist consults with his subjects to develop their own visual and performative strategies, and any manner of objects can be brought into the cube to further define a sitter’s personal portrait space.

Link:  Cube

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