FACING

LOSS

2022

Interactive Installation

Programs used
Procreate | Python  Touchdesigner

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About the project
Process
How it works
The result

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When I lose a person in my life, I process the grief through drawings.

Portraying a person is often challenging. Since you have to remember every part of the face, the feel of the skin, the glow in the eyes and how the person gesticulates, in order to capture their essence on paper.

This experience is based on that gesture of sitting down and trying to remember and reconnect with the person through their portrait.

Facing loss, invites the user to recreate this experience through technology.

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I programmed an artificial intelligence to identify the strokes of the digital drawing and reconstruct them into a realistic image.

I trained her with hundreds of digital drawings of different styles and with her original portraits

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At the beginning of the installation, the user is invited to draw the face of a person with whom they wish to reconnect on a tablet.

The artificial intelligence interprets the strokes of the portrait in real time and renders a realistic face of the face.

The render is projected in real time, i.e. the viewers witness the search for the person’s face.

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These are some of the results of the last test that was performed.

This project is still in process.

It is going to be presentedin october at the museums of UNAM in Mexico City.