Michael Renner of the Visual Communication Institute, The Basel School of Design HGK FHNW at York University.
The topic of this inquiry was Portrait, Face and Identity and I investigated an alternative method to the static portraits.
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Investigating multiple embodiment of expression
Research Question: How can we visually represent multiple embodiment of expressions on portrait?
The topic of this inquiry was Portrait, Face and Identity and I investigated an alternative method to the static portraits.
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Investigating multiple embodiment of expression
Research Question: How can we visually represent multiple embodiment of expressions on portrait?
Embodiment theory defines the body as the material frame of man. To embody is to put into a body an idea or spirit, to give a concrete form to or to express (principles, thoughts or intentions) within art, action, word combinations, or institutions. An embodiment of an idea or principle is its physical form, realization or expression, or the incarnation of that idea. Lacan theorizes that man, sensing himself from within his own body, is only able to conceive his body as an accumulation of pieces-or other bodies. Sara Ahmed in Strange Encounters, adds, that we are not strangers from one another but to ourselves. This strangeness derives from notions of interdependence of body and mind. Focault summarized this inherent-relationship, in the question, “is the body the prison of the mind, or the mind the prison for the body?”
The following images are my systematic approach to answer my research question.
