A genre as old as time, Portraiture enters the Metaverse. From AI to Afro-Futurism, these artists should be firmly on your radar.
Tony Oursler, b0t / fl0w — ch@rt (2017)
Tony Oursler combines glass and AI to create sci-fi robots to question how positive a force technology really is. Will we know everything? Or will we be destroyed by what we have created?
Parker Day, The Female Gaze (2017)
Parker Day investigates identity through digital technology — capturing on camera vivid colour, surreal compositions and unexpected expressions.
Shir Pakman, Red Hat Big Nose (2022)
Shir Pakman reasserts traditional art genres in the wake of contemporary digital practices. This piece is inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Red Hat (1666), challenging the female gaze through Pakman’s figure.
Serwah Attafuah, VOIDWALKER (2020)
Attafuah depicts afro-futuristic figures in utopic dreamscapes, combining ancestral and contemporary digital themes.
Tomokazu Matsuyama, Portrait 1 (2022)
Post-internet age of connectedness, Matsuyama’s practice explores his own identity between Japan and America by taking inspiration from Pop to Manga, and from graffiti to the Edo Period.
Espen Kluge, alternatives (2010)
This work, from Kluge’s series, ‘alternatives’, is a portrait generated in Javascript. Striking abstract faces are created from data collected from photographs sourced on the internet.
