Gretchen Kupferschmid-Looking Outward-05

https://timrodenbroeker.de/projects/redrawing-images/

A series of 3d generative portraits were created by artist Tim Rodenbroeker in which he utilizes portraits taken by photographer Ivana Marija Hope to create digital artwork and animation of the portraits. The size and z-position of each object is based on the brightness values of images files. I love the fact that this artwork is heavily based on the portrait style of the 1900s, yet is so contemporary in its generative and coding based digital aspect. Rodenbroeker’s work is based heavily on using open-source technology like Processing and even p5js. He also creates this images by combining the algorithm and code he creates with lots of research and experimentation.

Though the art is based off of photography art that had already been created, Rodenbroeker manages to create new artwork that celebrates the new computational style that computers allow us to create and to combine it with the human form.