Lincoln Schatz
New Media Artist / ChicagoOctober 4 – Anchorage
October 5 – Fairbanks
October 6 – Juneau
Lincoln Schatz is a contemporary American artist, best known for works that utilize video to collect, store, and display images from specific environments. His work engages chance as a means of breaking habitual modes of thought. Software and interactors (people) are the determinants in this process.
He established his artistic practice in 2000, when he made the transition from sculptural objects to generative video work. Schatz creates “generative portraits” of people and places: video images captured by digital cameras, stored on hard drives, and randomly recombined over time in overlapping layers. The resulting works can be read in many ways — as abstractions, as narratives, or as borrowed memories of moments in time. He is interested in ways to create generative systems that utilize chance to produce variable outcomes.
Long central to his work was the desire to merge artistic practice with the everyday experience of life, replete with its compounding accrual of information. His project “Cube” was commissioned for Esquire’s 75th anniversary to create generative portraits of George Clooney, Marc Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, Danger Mouse, David Chang, LeBron James and others, and will grow to include dozens of people from every discipline who are laying the foundations of the 21st Century. “Cube” was also featured as a special project at PULSE Miami 2007, concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach.
