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ISBN 10: 1399525077

ISBN 13: 9781399525077

Author: Abraham Geil, Tomás Jirsa

Presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media Extends the domain of portraiture to include not just painting, photography, and film but also ethography, literature, music video, social media, digital apps and algorithmic facial recognition Includes case studies from France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, Canada, and the United States Presents ‘the portrait’ as a media-theoretical concept and traces its practices within diverse sets of material, technological, and media networks Brings together both internationally renowned and emerging scholars across a range of disciplines, including: media studies, art history, critical theory, science and technology studies, and medical humanities, and animal studies As technological practices of the portrait have proliferated across the media ecosystem in recent years, this canonical genre of identity and representation has provoked a new wave of scholarly attention and artistic experimentation. This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in specific medial configurations. Tracking the portrait across a wide range of media – literature, drawings, paintings, grave stelae, films, gallery installations, contemporary music videos, deep fakes, social media, video games and immersive VR interfaces – the contributors interrogate and transform persistent metaphysical and anthropocentric assumptions inherited from traditional notions of portraiture.

Reconfiguring the Portrait 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Genealogies

Operative Portraits: How Our Faces Became Big Data

‘This Person Does Not Exist’: From Real Generalization to Algorithmic Abstraction in Photographic Portraiture

The Face as Artifact: Towards an Artifactual Genealogy of the Portrait

Part II: (Inter)Faces

When Face Becomes Interface: Music Video and the Portrait of Mediality

Tracing Minor Gestures: Relational Portrait with Fernand Deligny

Lifelike Portraits and ‘Life Itself’: Deepfakes through Gothic Horror

Animal Portraits in Social Media: A Case Study Named Esther

Part III: Self-Constructions

The Subject in the Frame: Aesthetic Opacity and Reverberations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

The Avatarisation of the (Self-)Portrait: Notes Towards a Theological Genealogy of the Virtual Self

Iiu Susiraja: Self-Shooting as Playful Practice

The Quantification Trilogy’s Loss-of-Self Portraits: Mediating the Technologies of the Self

Part IV: Afterlives

As If to Say Nothing: On Balthus’s Portraits

Speaking, Through the Eyes, with the Dead

Revenants: The Animation of Dead People’s Portraits in Contemporary Technoculture

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