Android Portraits

Symposium:

• ISEA2016: 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art
• More presentations from ISEA2016:  

• Digital Portrait, Social Network

• Android Portraits

• Claire Jervert

Venue(s):

• Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR China

• Claire Jervert describes her Android Portrait project, which examines the historical traditions of portraiture in relation to recent developments in robotic science; international nature of android robot projects, and efforts to achieve extreme human verisimilitude; historical portraiture’s goal of conveying the uniqueness and psychological depth of the individual human being; applying these traditional elements of human portraiture to the depiction of contemporary androids, as a metaphor for the questions of human uniqueness raised by the development of humanoid robots; and the future of portrait traditions in relation to increased integration of androids into everyday life.

Category:

• Artist Talk