#Digital portraiture software
#Digital portraiture code
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Thanks to Espen and Kate, the work I have curated for this article is also now available to Artnome readers and collectors of digital art. Additionally, in my new capacity as senior curator for Kate Vass Galerie, I have the added pleasure of making introductions for artists like Kluge to help further raise his profile and identify a network of collectors and appreciators for his work. It is artists like Espen Kluge who keep me excited about discovering new work and sharing it through my writing on Artnome. Kluge, his music, and his art are truly fantastic treasures. I also agree that the uniqueness of his work is likely a direct result of his struggles and unique journey. But sometimes you take the longer road and you get your own very unique experience with things, which I think results in something very cool and creative.ДЄs someone who also spent their life breaking things and doing things the вЂњwrongвЂќ way, I couldnвЂ™t agree with Kluge more. I took longer than most students to get there with music notation.

#Digital portraiture code

But I have never been very good or very intuitive with code or notation - I have always been very chaotic with both programming and notation. When I asked him about the similarities between programming with Java and film scoring, he shared:Д«oth are programming languages, Java script and musical notation. It is a very playful process.ДЄn artistвЂ™s artist, Kluge is candid and open about his process, one which is beautifully honest and imperfect. I would like to think this is true for all generative artists. ItвЂ™s impossible for me to have these things in my head before I start. Sometimes the lines and shapes can be really beautiful, and I donвЂ™t think I could calculate that. This is something I use to be my drawing hand. ItвЂ™s a pleasure every time I get close to something I like. Oh, yeah, I wouldnвЂ™t have the motivation to do this at all if I wasnвЂ™t surprised every time. When I asked Kluge if he is still surprised by the outputs he is getting, he replied: It flies in the face of the popular misconception that programming art is somehow a linear process, when in actuality, it is almost always circuitous. I love KlugeвЂ™s description of his organic coding process for creating art. He claims to have вЂњabout 100 saved combinations.вЂќ He will typically try an image across 20 or so of his CodePen variations, searching for the best possible output and making further changes to the code when necessary.

#Digital portraiture software

Kluge has built an assembly line of code variations he likes into the software tool CodePen so that he can rapidly try out different configurations on his source images. I listened to it while writing this post and highly recommend it. You can hear his soundtrack for the 2018 television show Who Killed Birgitte? on Spotify.

KlugeвЂ™s music, like his portraits, is psychologically nuanced and exploratory.

#Digital portraiture tv

He earned a bachelorвЂ™s degree in fine arts but then pivoted and studied composition in music for TV and film for his masterвЂ™s degree. Kluge shared that he grew up in Norway, where he still lives and works today. I assured him the titles added just the right amount of mystery and fun while avoiding the trap of becoming overly pretentious and serious. He was a bit apologetic about this, and wondered aloud if he should spend more time on the titles. He explained that he gets his titles by pulling snippets from the text associated with the source images he uses to create his portraits.

I was honestly a bit surprised to hear Kluge speak perfect English because I had assumed his deadpan titles like вЂњ makes great choices while angryвЂњ and вЂњ cruise ships and police carsвЂњ were in part a function of English not being his first language. I set up a call to speak with Espen Kluge about his work and caught him during a visit to Sweden to help his fiancee prepare her apartment for sale. With twenty yearsвЂ™ experience working in digital media, if I see something beautiful and I canвЂ™t figure out how it was made, I feel deeply compelled to reach out to the artist.