Using two dozen Mac minis to capture video from an equal number of video cameras mounted all around his 1,600-pound, ten-foot square Cube, Chicago-based video artist and sculptor Lincoln Schatz creates "generative portraits" of subjects who line up to spend an hour in the steel and plexiglass enclosure "surrounded by whatever objects they choose, doing whatever they feel represents them best." When the shoots done, Schatz lets his Mac Pro server "harvest" the video he's captured. The portraits that emerge result in an evolving montage of randomly selected non-linear images"some shot yesterday and some a year or more ago"that subvert the idea of "posing" for a likeness. Twenty-first century portraits anyone?
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