Lincoln Schatz
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Hearst Corporation and Esquire Magazine have commissioned Lincoln Schatz to do a series of portraits using his CUBE concept. This project, entitled "Esquire's Portrait of the 21st Century by Lincoln Schatz" will span several months and include dozens of people. It is a companion piece for Esquire's October 75th Anniversary issue, which will name the 75 most influential people of the 21st Century. Both the completed portrait and the anniversary issue will be unveiled in September. The CUBE project is currently installed in the North Gallery at Hearst Tower in NYC.
In each CUBE portrait, the sitter spends up to one hour in a ten-foot-by-ten-foot translucent box fitted with 24 cameras that stream digital video to 24 computers. During each one-hour sitting, CUBE subjects are encouraged to represent their personalities, interests, and values in whatever ways they choose. Then, using thousands of these video files, Schatz creates a portrait of randomized, perpetually evolving progression of overlapping images. Moored in the moment but never quite the same composition, Schatz's "generative" portraits have an infinite ability to reconfigure perception and reorder time.
Some of the recent portraits include: George Clooney, who danced with ten women in the CUBE; Jeff Bezos, who read a friend's novel on his Amazon Kindle; Marc Jacobs, who spent his time doing yoga with his instructor; Momofuku chef and owner David Chang, who guzzled Pabst Blue Ribbon with three of his cooks; Santiago Calatrava, who created a series of conceptual drawings; and Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, who worked on rocket designs in the CUBE. Many more are expected in the coming months.
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That’s Not a Flashback, It’s Video Portraiture (New York Times 2007-10-14)
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Bitforms Gallery Website
Lincoln Shatz Esquire Portraits of the 21st Century
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