Videorative Portrait of Randall Okita by Sergio Albiac [3:00 minutes]
The “videorative portrait” of Randall Okita is made of bits and pieces of tagged videos clips. Artist Sergio Albiac calls this “generative video painting.”
From the collection of clips Albiac “tagged” each element with emotional phrases, e.g. “isolation,” “love,” to identify the feelings he thought the clip represented. He then “paints” the video portrait using these feelings as color and texture. It’s “a sort of ‘Portrait of Dorian Gray,’” Albiac says, “but reflecting your memories instead of your sins.”
Albiac explains these type of portraiture “are the result of my experiments to build a more ‘realistic’ contemporary portrait of the physical and psychological…A visual metaphor of the memory, heavily distorted, chaotic, fragmented, obsessively replayed. A picture of memories. A map of emotions.”
