Solo study / 2026

ASCII / Pixel
Realtime Study

Portraits and graphic forms are reduced to a small alphabet of symbols and pixels, oscillating between recognition and computational abstraction.

Role concept / visual system / programmingMethod realtime image reductionTools TouchDesigner
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Image logic

How little information can still hold a face?

The system repeatedly moves between readable portrait, graphic residue and coloured symbol field. Its tension comes from keeping just enough information for recognition while allowing the image to collapse into a different visual grammar.

Realtime pixel portrait
Portrait reconstruction
Reduced yellow portrait
Reduced portrait field
Abstract symbol field
Symbol / colour state