thousands of new human beings. The piece will be presented from May 8 to 26 in the Chapel of the Colegio de San Ildefonso, as part of the eighth version of El Aleph: Festival of Art and Science.
This new piece is part of his exploration of patterns and the possibilities of combination to produce unexpected works of art
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To do this, Eno used a small set of still photographs of people’s faces, which are transformed slowly, almost imperceptibly, pixel by pixel, into new faces, through the use of a software created expressly. Subsequently, “a long chain of ‘new humans’ is formed between every real human, people who have never existed, intermediate humans, 25 every second. In this version, 170 thousand new faces have been born.”
In a video released by UNAM Cultural Diffusion, the writer and activist also spoke about this installation, whose genesis, he explained, dates back to a quarter of a century ago, when he began to feel attracted by the transformations that could be observed in pop music videos. –especially those of Michael Jackson–, superhero movies and children’s toys such as Transformers. I found it very interesting to see how people and things become other things
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The artist specified that in 2003 he made a first version of this work, “fascinated by the idea that new human beings could be ‘created’.”
He explained that, as in many of his works, in this one he uses well-known gadgets, but used in an unusual way. So a lot of my work is based on looking at the technology available and subverting it, making something different from what it was designed for.
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Of Face to Face for Méxicoassured that it makes him very happy to find the quiet drama of slow change. Originally, the idea was to be able to see a universe of people who never existed, but could have existed. They all look like real people, but they never really existed.
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