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NICOLE HIPP
New Media Artist


FACING LOSS











2022 - ongoing            Interactive Installation programmed by an AI


01Statement
02Exhibition Overview
03Execution & Media
04Results

Statement

When I lose someone, I process grief through drawing—capturing their essence by recalling their face, gestures, and presence.  


This interactive installation invites users to explore this act of remembrance through technology. By engaging with AI, participants recreate the intimate process of reconnecting with a lost loved one through the gesture of portraiture.

Exhibition Overview

This interactive installation bridges personal memory and artificial intelligence, transforming the act of portraiture into a collaborative process of reconnection.  


At the start, participants draw the face of someone they wish to remember on a digital tablet. As they sketch, an AI interprets their strokes in real time, generating a lifelike rendering of the imagined face.  


The evolving portrait is projected live, allowing viewers to witness the interplay between human memory and machine interpretation as the face emerges—a dynamic search for connection through technology.  





Sketch of the Installation Flow

Execution & Media


Programs: Procreate, Python, Touchdesigner







The AI driving the installation was programmed to analyze and interpret digital drawing strokes, reconstructing them into realistic portraits.  

The training process involved hundreds of digital drawings in various styles, alongside original portraits, enabling the AI to generate lifelike images from diverse inputs. This blend of human creativity and machine learning forms the foundation of the experience.  




All drawing were created by me.
The face images database were created with:
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
https://www.artbreeder.com
https://generated.photos




Results




This project is ongoing, with the installation continually evolving. These results represent the progress achieved so far, reflecting the current stage of development and interaction within the work.
Test Projection
Documentation of test drawings