First exhibited at the Circle of Light Moscow International Festival, Aristarkh Chernyshev’s video sculpture called ‘Userpic’ is a monument to historic masterpieces of art throughout the world. This develops what chernyshev calls, ‘a connection between a profile picture and a Renaissance portrait of a wealthy city dweller, who hired an artist to make his portrait to represent himself to the society, i.e. a specific userpic to present oneself to the world.’ The project is the result of experimenting with a minimalistic shape, low-resolution aesthetics, an animated three-dimensional texture, and RGB LED technology. Once works, such as the Mona Lisa and Girl with a pearl earring, are applied to the construct via computer-generated programming, the screen displays them in a constant state of fluctuation and variability.

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